Pressure Machine by The Killers

Pressure Machine, the Killers' seventh studio album, came out on Island on August 13, 2021, and it's a quiet, inward-looking record, a concept album built on Brandon Flowers' childhood in Nephi, Utah. Jonathan Rado and Shawn Everett were back behind the desk, guitarist Dave Keuning was back in the studio after sitting out Imploding the Mirage, and bassist Mark Stoermer missed the sessions because of pandemic complications.

The Springsteen influence is written all over it, and Flowers also pulls from John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and the songs unfold as hushed heartland folk rock and Americana. Phoebe Bridgers adds her voice to "Runaway Horses". There were no singles, only videos for "Quiet Town", "Runaway Horses" and "The Getting By II", yet critics warmed to it, it reached number nine on the Billboard 200, topped the rock and folk album charts there, and gave the band a seventh straight number one in the UK.

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