The Killers have confirmed that ‘Boy’ will be their next single, announcing the news on social media today.The band gave ‘Boy’ a live debut at Mad Cool festival earlier this month (July 7).
Speaking to NME ahead of that set, Flowers explained how the track was a leftover from 2021’s ‘Pressure Machine’.“We’ve been teasing it a little bit,” he told NME. “It was the song that took me back home and was sort of the impetus for writing [2021 album] ‘Pressure Machine’.
What’s interesting is that it just didn’t make it onto the record – but its absence is not a reflection of the quality of the song.
It was an aesthetic decision to keep it off the record.”He continued: “There’s an optimism to it. It’s in the dust, it’s in the gutter, and it’s looking at the stars.
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