The Killers are back with their seventh studio album, Pressure Machine.

This album is set in frontman Brandon Flowers’ hometown which is a tiny town in Nephi, Utah, with 5300 people. The songs on the album are based on the stories that impacted him growing up.

“Because it’s such a small town, and you wonder how that’s going to resonate with people all over the world. And it’s such a specific place in the Southwest. But then I couldn’t escape it. Every time I went to the keyboard, these ideas kept coming out, all based on characters that I grew up observing, or experiences that I had in town, or memories. So I went with it.”

Leading up to the release date, the band gave us a series of trailers featuring music and spoken interludes from Pressure Machine, that talk about the town.

In a press release, Brandon Flowers explained how the pandemic shut down their plans for Imploding the Mirage, leaving room for the creation of Pressure Machine.

“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.”

With the album they also released an animated music video for the second track, “Quiet Town”.

“I was in eighth grade when two seniors got hit by a train. Their names were Raymond and Tiffany. I was surprised to find 25 years later how much I was still affected by it. I felt like it was the end of an innocence for me and for the town, because afterwards I noticed things started to happen. It was almost like opening this door of darkness. A lot of times we talk about stagnation with snarky terms, and I think it’s one of the things that’s associated with towns like Nephi, but it can also be a beautiful thing, because it’s these people that are holding on to ideals and traditions. I hope that it never changes in that respect.”

You can watch the music video below.

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