{"id":14718,"date":"2026-08-17T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/08\/17\/brandon-flowers-thrasher-review-killers-frontmans-country-pivot-is-a-rootin-tootin-cowboy-bootin-hoot-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:31:15","slug":"brandon-flowers-thrasher-review-killers-frontmans-country-pivot-is-a-rootin-tootin-cowboy-bootin-hoot-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/08\/17\/brandon-flowers-thrasher-review-killers-frontmans-country-pivot-is-a-rootin-tootin-cowboy-bootin-hoot-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review \u2013 Killers frontman\u2019s country pivot is a rootin\u2019 tootin\u2019 cowboy-bootin\u2019 hoot! Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Island)<\/strong><br \/>Even a couple of bafflingly misguided social commentary songs can\u2019t detract from the joys of Flowers\u2019 classically full-throated commitment to the Nashville bit<\/p>\n<p>Here are three immutable facts about Brandon Richard Flowers: he was born just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He is 45 years old. And he never does anything by halves. When he and his band the Killers debuted in the early 2000s, as disaffected New York cool was on the rise, he was writing scream-along choruses sung in his upper register. When the Killers were searching for a sound even bigger and grander than the euphoric Springsteen pastiche of 2006\u2019s Sam\u2019s Town, they didn\u2019t think twice before recruiting Stuart Price to produce the spangly 2008 disco-rock record Day &amp; Age.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how you get a record like Thrasher. Flowers\u2019 third solo album finds Vegas\u2019s chosen son decamping to Nashville for a full-throated exploration of country music \u2013 not subtle, trendy Americana, but rip-snorting, honky-tonking, Nudie suit-wearing country. In many ways, Thrasher is a stylistic follow-up to the Killers\u2019 maudlin 2021 Pressure Machine, which saw Flowers explore windswept balladry and tasteful story-songs. But that record was as forgettable as Thrasher is a hoot; Flowers wilts when he doesn\u2019t fully commit, as was the case on Pressure Machine, and he doesn\u2019t make that mistake here. Thrasher features many of Nashville\u2019s most revered country musicians, including pedal steel legend Bruce Bouton, 85-year-old harmonica player Charlie McCoy, Gillian Welch\u2019s musical partner Dave Rawlings and lauded Americana musician Margo Price.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/aug\/17\/brandon-flowers-thrasher-review-killers-frontman-country-album\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/aug\/17\/brandon-flowers-thrasher-review-killers-frontman-country-album\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c908a00296381004fc141894e043d80e80dd33a\/187_0_3413_2731\/master\/3413.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=57ad64f8b2877d4fd6beeced075cee0a\" title=\"Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review \u2013 Killers frontman\u2019s country pivot is a rootin\u2019 tootin\u2019 cowboy-bootin\u2019 hoot!\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Island)Even a couple of bafflingly misguided social commentary songs can\u2019t detract from the joys of Flowers\u2019 classically full-throated commitment to the Nashville bit Here are three immutable facts about Brandon Richard Flowers: he was born just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. 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