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The Killers have a song with Phoebe Bridgers on new album Pressure Machine
The Killers have teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers (Picture:Getty)
Fans of both The Killers and Phoebe Bridgers have every right to be hyped, as it’s been revealed the two have collaborated on a track on the band’s new album Pressure Machine.
The Killers’ lead singer Brandon Flowers, 40, and co will release their seventh record and follow-up to 2020’s Imploding the Mirage on August 13 and it will feature the 26-year-old singer-songwriter on the track Runaway Horses.
American singer-songwriter and guitarist Phoebe has previously covered multiple songs by The Killers, In 2019 she and bandmate Conor Oberst shared a cover of the hit Human.
The Las Vegas band got fans excited by tweeting: ‘11 days to go. 11 tracks on the record. Coincidence?’
As well as sharing the track list, The Killers previewed the new retro-sounding music from the record with a new trailer.
The collection is co-produced by band members Brandon, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. along with Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, who all worked together on the acclaimed Imploding The Mirage.
Frontman Brandon recently explained that Pressure Machine ‘bloomed’ amid the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down the band’s worldwide tour.
He divulged: ‘Everything came to this grinding halt. 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.’
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Lead singer Brandon Flowers, 40, and co will release their seventh record and follow-up to 2020’s Imploding the Mirage on August 13 (Picture: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
The singer also explained how the new record is inspired by the town of Nephi, Utah, a community of 5,000 people with no traffic lights and plenty of wheat fields were the musician spent part of his childhood.
He said: ‘Had it not been for advancements in the automotive industry, Nephi in the 90s could have been the 1950s.’
Brandon recently explained that the new album ‘bloomed’ after the coronavirus pandemic halted the band’s worldwide tour (Picture: Rob Loud/Rex/Shutterstock)
The album’s songs are based on memories and stories that impacted him growing up and features commentary from current Nephi residents about their town.
Drummer Ronnie said: ‘We were discussing [Brandon] moving to Nephi as a kid and being stuck in the middle of nowhere. And during Covid-19, it started to feel like we were all in the middle of nowhere.’
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He went on: ‘I discovered this grief that I hadn’t dealt with, 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 Killers’ new album Pressure Machine is out on August 13.
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