#The Killers Announce New Album Pressure Machine

For the second straight year, the Killers are releasing a new album. The follow-up to 2020’s Imploding the Mirage is titled Pressure Machine and is scheduled to arrive on August 13 (via Island). Find a trailer for the record, as well as its Wes Johnson–shot cover, below.

Shawn Everett and Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado co-produced Pressure Machine. According to a press release, the album is inspired by Brandon Flowers’ hometown of Nephi, Utah. “I discovered this grief that I hadn’t dealt with,” the frontman remarked in a statement. “Many memories of my time in Nephi are tender. But the ones tied to fear or great sadness were emotionally charged. I’ve 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.”

In addition to the Nephi inspiration, Flowers noted that Pressure Machine was a product of circumstance, as the band could not tour due to the pandemic. “It was the first time in a long time for me that I was faced with silence,” he said. “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.”

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