Pressure Machine

by The Killers

Pressure Machine cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 August 2021
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:22
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Griffin Goldsmith, Joe Pug, Nate Walcott, Shawn Everett, Brandon Flowers, Gabriel Cabezas, Anjolee Williams, Taylor Goldsmith, Ronnie Vannucci, Charles Henderson-McCrary, Jonathan Rado, Rob Moose, Dave Keuning, Sara Watkins, Matthew Davidson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arriving only a year after their previous arena-rock effort, the Las Vegas band produced a stunningly quiet, intensely intimate concept album centered around frontman Brandon Flowers' childhood hometown of Nephi, Utah. The project heavily interpolates documentary-style audio interviews with the town's actual residents, exploring the devastating impacts of the opioid epidemic and small-town stagnation through lush, acoustic heartland rock. It was widely lauded as their most mature and conceptually daring work.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, christian, drugs, death, folk

Tracklist

  1. West Hills (5:42)
  2. Quiet Town (4:45)
  3. Terrible Thing (3:52)
  4. Cody (3:50)
  5. Sleepwalker (4:27)
  6. Runaway Horses (3:54)
  7. In The Car Outside (5:28)
  8. In Another Life (3:45)
  9. Desperate Things (5:16)
  10. Pressure Machine (5:09)
  11. The Getting By (5:09)

Credits

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