Overview
- Brandon Flowers announced the 10‑song album on Tuesday, June 23, saying Thrasher will be released Aug. 21 on Island Records and that the lead single “Plans” arrives June 26.
- Flowers recorded Thrasher at Nashville’s RCA Studio A with producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado and enlisted veteran players including David Rawlings, pedal‑steel ace Bruce Bouton and harmonica legend Charlie McCoy.
- The songs draw on Flowers’ Utah childhood and family stories, with tracks like “One Of Us” written as a tribute to a late brother‑in‑law and “Miss America” mining 1980s memories.
- A solo tour to support the album has been announced, with a reported 17‑date North American leg starting Sept. 1 and a brief run of UK and Ireland dates to follow.
- Flowers says Thrasher is one of two solo records he has finished and frames the project as an expansion of his sound toward country/Americana rather than a break from his Killers work, which the band is reported to resume with a new album around 2027.