The Killers - Pressure Machine

Released 13th August 2021.

SK says: "Wasting no time in following up last year's exuberant 'Imploding The Mirage' and once again enlisting Shawn Everett (The War on Drugs) and Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Alex Cameron) to produce/co-write, the new album is an intense and personal affair which sees frontman Brandon Flowers unpack his small-town Utah upbringing- resident vox-pops bridge some of the album's songs, discussing dead-end jobs and level crossing accidents. The influence of Springsteen has long lingered over the Vegas band but this might be their most explicit homage to the downtrodden blue collar Boss of 'Nebraska' and 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'. Appearances from Nickel Creek fiddle maestro Sara Watkins and emo troubadour Phoebe Bridgers lend the album a folkier timbre, while longtime guitarist Dave Keuning returns to the band having sat out the previous record.Everett'smixing brings out the brightness of burnished acoustic guitar