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The Killers announce August 2022 Las Vegas show; ready new album

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Last year, The Killers were fully prepared to tour in support of their sixth studio album, Imploding the Mirage. But COVID-19 scuttled those plans, so the band did the next best thing: They wrote and recorded album number seven.

Pressure Machine, co-produced by the band with Shawn Everett and Foxygen's Jonathan Rado, drops on August 13. And just over a year after that, on August 16, 2022, the band will play a show at T-Mobile Arena featuring songs from both albums, their extensive back catalog and any other albums the workhorse outfit happens to write and produce between now and then.

Pressure Machine, said to be a quieter, more introspective album inspired by Brandon Flowers' childhood in the small town of Nephi, Utah, was a direct result of last year's pandemic-induced full stop.

"It was the first time in a long time for me that I was faced with silence," Flowers said in a press statement. "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."

Ronnie Vannucci Jr. agreed: "We were discussing [Brandon] moving to Nephi as a kid and being stuck in the middle of nowhere,” he said. “And during COVID-19, it started to feel like we were all in the middle of nowhere.” A video of Flowers discussing the influences behind Pressure Machine is online here.

The resulting album reportedly addresses the opioid epidemic and religious disenchantment through the lens of a small-town American upbringing, and is said to be the band's most elegant record yet. We'll find out in a month's time, and next year, we'll hear these new songs transformed by a live band that's fully back in motion.

Tickets for the T-Mobile show go on sale Friday, July 23 at 10 a.m. through AXS.com.

 

 

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