Pre Order Release 13\/08\/21 Available in Multiple Formats Indies Exclusive Slipcase Vinyl Black Vinyl With Exclusive Slipcase Standard Vinyl Black Vinyl Cassette Tape The Killers will release their seventh studio album, Pressure Machine, on EMI on 13th August, 2021. The album was co-produced by the band, Shawn Everett, and Jonathan Rado (of Foxygen), all of whom worked together on The Killers \u00e2\u20ac\u2122critically-acclaimed album Imploding The Mirage, released last year. When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the promotional run and worldwide tour for The Killers \u00e2\u20ac\u2122majestic, critically-acclaimed 2020 album Imploding the Mirage, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153everything came to this grinding halt,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says frontman Brandon Flowers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And it was the first time in a long time for me that I was faced with silence. And out of that silence this record began to bloom, full of songs that would have otherwise been too quiet and drowned out by the noise of typical Killers records.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Indeed, for the first time since 2004, the relentless momentum and pressures of being in a globally-renowned, stadium-shaking band stopped. Enter Pressure Machine: a view into the everyday realities of a small American town with a stark, tough beauty, and The Killers \u00e2\u20ac\u2122most restrained and resonant album yet. A quieter, character-study-driven album, Pressure Machine lives squarely in Flowers \u00e2\u20ac\u2122hometown of Nephi, Utah, a close-knit community of 5300 people with no traffic lights, a rubber plant, wheat fields, and the West Hills. Nephi is the place Flowers spent his formative years (10-16), saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153had it not been for advancements in the automotive industry, Nephi in the 90s could have been the 1950s.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s songs are based on the memories and stories of people that impacted him growing up, interspersed with commentary from current Nephi locals about their town. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were discussing [Brandon] moving to Nephi as a kid and being stuck in the middle of nowhere,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And during Covid-19, it started to feel like we were all in the middle of nowhere.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Concurs Flowers, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I discovered this grief that I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dealt with,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153many memories of my time in Nephi are tender. But the ones tied to fear or great sadness were emotionally charged. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got more understanding now than when we started the band, and hopefully I was able to do justice to these stories and these lives in this little town that I grew up in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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