The Killers - Pressure Machine (8.13.21) Album • Page 4

Barresi · Jul 19, 2021

Barresi · Jul 19, 2021

Pre-orders are up.

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Craig Manning · Jul 19, 2021

A brief rollout, just as the gods intended it.

heymattrick · Jul 19, 2021

Looks like NA Tour dates starting to pop up for September and October of next year. Dang, that’s so far away. ITM will be more than two years old

Donnie Ruth · Jul 19, 2021

4 week rollout? Ahhhh yes.

Matt Chylak · Jul 19, 2021

Nice cover art! Fits the vibe well.

@@ron · Jul 19, 2021

I cannot wait! I also wish they did limited color vinyl releases, but why start now lol

Zeke · Jul 19, 2021

There will be 11 songs on the new album.

bodkins · Jul 19, 2021

Can’t believe we’ll have a new Killers record in less than a month. Fuck yea.

Matt Chylak · Jul 19, 2021

@@ron said:

I cannot wait! I also wish they did limited color vinyl releases, but why start now lol

Is there any way for me to pay less than $30 for an Imploding the Mirage vinyl? It's like $40 with shipping when I go through their website.

@@ron · Jul 19, 2021

Matt Chylak said:

Is there any way for me to pay less than $30 for an Imploding the Mirage vinyl? It's like $40 with shipping when I go through their website.

It’s on Amazon for less. I’ll probably grab it there since for some reason I don’t have that one yet

Barresi · Jul 19, 2021

Yeah, like $38 for the new album on vinyl from their site when all was said and done.

Also really dig those cassettes, but I can not justify paying those prices haha.

Barresi · Jul 19, 2021

Universal's Spain website confirms Phoebe features on the album.

Donnie Ruth · Jul 19, 2021

Barresi said:

Universal's Spain website confirms Phoebe features on the album.

OMG

bodkins · Jul 19, 2021

Hell yea

Mort Michaels · Jul 19, 2021

I'm PSYCHED!!

Matt Chylak · Jul 19, 2021

Here's the press release:

The Killers will release their seventh studio album, entitled Pressure Machine, on Island Records on August 13, 2021. The album was co-produced by the band, Shawn Everett, and Jonathan Rado (of Foxygen), all of whom worked together on The Killers’ critically-acclaimed album Imploding The Mirage, released last year.

When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the promotional run and worldwide tour for The Killers’ majestic, critically-acclaimed 2020 album Imploding the Mirage, “everything came to this grinding halt,” says frontman Brandon Flowers. “And 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.” 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’ most restrained and resonant album yet.

A quieter, character-study-driven album, Pressure Machine lives squarely in Flowers’ hometown 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 “had it not been for advancements in the automotive industry, Nephi in the 90s could have been the 1950s.” The album’s 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. “We were discussing [Brandon] moving to Nephi as a kid and being stuck in the middle of nowhere,” says the band’s drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. “And during Covid-19, it started to feel like we were all in the middle of nowhere.” Concurs Flowers, “I discovered this grief that I hadn’t dealt with,” he says, “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.”

The resulting record is an aural document of growing up - and living - in the American Southwest, told from a myriad of perspectives. For the first time in his life, Flowers had complete lyrics before a note of music was put to tape. No stranger to inhabiting different characters in songs, on Pressure Machine he steps into the shoes of some of the people whose lives he watched unfold as a teen. The album weaves the threads of Flowers’ signature lyricism throughout his career into a perfect whole culminating in the most elegant album The Killers have ever made.

Through its characters and also its title, the album squares up to the unbending pressure of the American dream compounded by religious disenchantment. A born optimist, moments of beauty inevitably shine out of the grief of Flowers's songs: the healing arrival of summer, the first crop of hay, sweeter skies. Pressure Machine’s stories detail the real life personal battles, overwhelming regrets, local tragedies, and the opioid epidemic that hit Flowers’ hometown, as well as every hometown in America. Flowers sings about the choices people make, for better and for worse, and the consequences of those choices; the ones who were left behind, and the ones that can’t be forgotten.

Pressure Machine’s album cover image was shot on the highway just outside Nephi, taken as photographer Wes Johnson passed a roadside inspirational display set up by a local Baptist church. Johnson took dozens of incredible images of Flowers’ hometown throughout the early part of 2021, many of which are featured in the album’s packaging for the physical edition.

The Killers will be heading back to the road to celebrate both Pressure Machine and Imploding The Mirage, along with their much-loved catalogue of global hits, in 2022. Tickets for these shows go on sale on Friday, July 23rd, at 10 am local time via the band’s website.

Now that this info is out, I can say that they have 100% been listening to Nebraska but running it through the Killers' filter.

Rawrz · Jul 19, 2021

Hyped for this

Barresi · Jul 19, 2021

Matt Chylak said:

Now that this info is out, I can say that they have 100% been listening to Nebraska but running it through the Killers' filter.

Those were my immediate thoughts upon seeing the album cover, so I am pumped to have those hopes confirmed.

manoverboard365 · Jul 19, 2021

With all of the craziness of 2020 I completely missed Imploding the Mirage. Which is weird cuz I loved Caution when it first came out. Well I'm a year late but I listened to the album this morning and wow, it's surprisingly great. Only listened once, but my immediate reaction is this is the best Killers album since Sam's Town.
And now another new album coming in a few weeks?! Sign me the hell up.

Sean Murphy · Jul 19, 2021

Barresi said:

Universal's Spain website confirms Phoebe features on the album.

Dog Fish · Jul 19, 2021

Matt Chylak said:

Here's the press release:

Now that this info is out, I can say that they have 100% been listening to Nebraska but running it through the Killers' filter.

For anyone fortunate enough not to be involved with mormonism, the pronunciation of Nephi is: NEE-FI

SteveLikesMusic · Jul 19, 2021

Are we getting a single ?

Tomar Re · Jul 19, 2021

It’d be cool just to get the whole album in full with no single tbh but if they release one you can bet I’m listening to it right away lol

Craig Manning · Jul 19, 2021

Matt Chylak said:

Here's the press release:

Now that this info is out, I can say that they have 100% been listening to Nebraska but running it through the Killers' filter.

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