“Quiet Town” by The Killers

"Quiet Town" is the second track on Pressure Machine, the Killers' seventh studio album, released in 2021 as a promotional single with its own video on the same day. Brandon Flowers wrote it with Jonathan Rado, and it looks back at Nephi, Utah, where Flowers was an eighth-grader in 1994 when two 17-year-old students from Juab High School, a couple with a baby, were killed when a freight train hit them at a crossing.

Flowers told NME he had seen one of them that morning, and that the grief still caught him off guard a quarter-century later when he sat down to write the verse. The song carries that weight with small-town plainness rather than melodrama, and it reached number 9 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart.

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