Killers Prepare New Album, ‘Pressure Machine,’ About Brandon Flowers’ Utah Hometown

variety.com:

Chris Willman Music WriterThe Killers have a new release coming Aug. 13, “Pressure Machine,” a concept album themed largely around frontman Brandon Flowers’ hometown of Nephi, Utah.Monday’s announcement of the new project was accompanied by a short video trailer that includes shots of the small town, and local citizens offering different takes on what it’s like to live in a fairly cloistered community, from a man offering the wary “If you don’t have the right name, the right whatever… there are people in town that love me and people in town that hate me” to a young woman exulting that it’s “a small community where everybody knows everybody, nice kids — we’ll be here forever.”Flowers described the album in a statement as having come out of.