Near a month since asserting his new solo nation document, Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is releasing the one, “Paradise.” The music will seem on Thrasher, due out Aug. 21.
On the music, Flowers is aware of when to carry ’em and fold ’em as he spits out playing puns over galloping banjo, keening metal guitar, and country-honkin’ harmonica. The music is ostensibly about his prolonged household working at Las Vegas casinos however beneath the glowing optimism of the music lies a darker, fatalist message: “It’s simply one other day in paradise/One other raindrop within the sea,” he sings. “Rely the hours to quittin’ time, attempting to cross the silver line that at all times leads simply past the shadows of my goals.”
Flowers recorded Thrasher in Nashville with producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado. A few of the musicians who recorded on the album embody Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings, pedal metal guitarist Bruce Bouton, and harmonica participant Charlie McCoy, whose enjoying graced Bob Dylan’s Nashville LPs. Flowers beforehand launched the album’s “Plans” and a reside model of that music filmed at RCA Studio A, as nicely.
“This isn’t me working away from rock & roll,” Flowers stated in a press release when he introduced the album. “I don’t wish to substitute my previous songs. I merely discovered room for extra.”
Flowers has additionally introduced solo tour dates. Tickets go broad to most of the people right this moment starting at 10 am native time. Full particulars are on the artist’s web site.
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Brandon Flowers’ North American Tour Dates
Sept. 1 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van BurenSept. 4 – Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford TheatreSept. 5 – Oakland, CA @ Fox TheaterSept. 7 – Portland, OR @ Roseland TheaterSept. 8 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue TheatreSept. 9 – Seattle, WA @ ShowboxSept. 11 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Crimson ButteSept. 12 – Denver, CO @ OgdenSept. 15 – St Paul, MN @ Palace TheatreSept. 16 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera TheatreSept. 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn ParamountSept. 20 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 ClubSept. 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music HallSept. 23 – Boston, MA @ RoadrunnerSept. 24 – Toronto, ON @ HistoryOct. 2 – Austin, TX @ Austin Metropolis LimitsOct. 6 – Las Vegas @ Wynn Encore Theater
