Brandon Flowers drops ‘THRASHER’ lead single ‘Plans’

Relocating from the usual glitz and glam of his Las Vegas home, The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers has returned with details of a brand new solo album, this time recorded in Nashville, TN. 

His new album, ‘THRASHER’, marks this third solo outing, and will be his first new release in 11 years, following on from his 2010 solo debut ‘Flamingo’, and its 2015 follow-up, ‘The Desired Effect’.

The ten-track album - set for release on 21st August via Island Records - will see the singer this time embrace the warmer flourishes of country and western music, having recorded at the historic RCA Studio A with producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, alongside a cast of iconic collaborators including David Rawlings on guitar, pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and harmonica player Charlie McCoy. 

Today, Flowers has also shared the album’s lead single ‘Plans’ - an evocative, widescreen number that’s immediately nostalgic and effortlessly affecting. Speaking about his foray into the sounds of the South, he’s reflected: “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found my way back to my father’s music - ‘Country-Western’ (as he called it) -  and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition.” 

In the LP’s trailer, he continues: “Two things can be true at the same time. The fact that I love new wave and rock and roll has been well-documented, but a life is long enough to allow for more. Walt Whitman said it best: “I am large, I contain multitudes”. Well, I’m larger now than I was 20 years ago, and I’ve unlocked a room that feels like it’s been waiting for me all along.”

Dive into the full album tracklist and listen to ‘Plans’ for yourself below. 

‘THRASHER’ tracklist:
Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?
One Of Us
Tiger’s Blood
Plans
Paradise
Miss America
Angel
The Red Ground
In A Heartbeat
An American Dream