Brandon Flowers catches the country bug and calls it Thrasher

Brandon Flowers’ Thrasher announcement on 23 June confirms that the Killers frontman has caught the country bug, which somehow feels both surprising and completely inevitable. Flowers has always written songs like neon churches built on desert roads, so adding pedal steel to the architecture does not exactly feel like betrayal. His first solo album since 2015’s The Desired Effect is due in August, with lead single Plans arriving later this week. Early trailer snippets reportedly suggest something close to a Killers song with added country colour, which frankly sounds like a workable plan. The tracklist alone leans into big American imagery: Tiger’s Blood, Paradise, Miss America, Angel, An American Dream. Flowers remains most compelling when sincerity and spectacle wrestle without either fully winning. Thrasher sounds ready to bring dust, drama and stadium-sized ache to the same roadside bar.

Source: https://stereogum.com/2503103/brandon-flowers-announces-new-countrified-solo-album-thrasher/music