{"id":67175,"date":"2026-06-23T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/brandon-flowers-announces-first-solo-album-in-11-years\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:04:31","slug":"brandon-flowers-announces-first-solo-album-in-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/brandon-flowers-announces-first-solo-album-in-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Flowers Announces First Solo Album in 11 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Killers\u2019 Brandon Flowers is hopping on the increasingly crowded country bandwagon. <em>Thrasher<\/em>, his first solo LP since 2015\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/20609-the-desired-effect\/\"><em>The Desired Effect<\/em><\/a>, was recorded in Nashville; includes tassel-heavy cover art (see below); and features contributions from David Rawlings, pedal-steel virtuoso\/longtime Garth Brooks collaborator Bruce Bouton, and harmonica player Charlie McCoy, best known for his work on multiple Dylan albums, including <em>Nashville Skyline<\/em>. <em>Thrasher<\/em> arrives August 21 via Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve found my way back to my father\u2019s music \u2014 \u2018Country-Western\u2019 (as he called it) \u2014\u00a0and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition,\u201d Flowers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The first single, \u201cPlans,\u201d drops this Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-iJvQnD cOWUYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-fnduJP iaVSwI asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-kFnjvc eKnjjD responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-jKunQM gjCCFj AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Thrasher<\/em>:<br \/>Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?<br \/>One Of Us<br \/>Tiger\u2019s Blood<br \/>Plans<br \/>Paradise<br \/>Miss America<br \/>Angel<br \/>The Red Ground<br \/>In A Heartbeat<br \/>An American Dream<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/brandon-flowers-new-album-thrasher\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Killers\u2019 Brandon Flowers is hopping on the increasingly crowded country bandwagon. Thrasher, his first solo LP since 2015\u2019s The Desired Effect, was recorded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[43,48],"class_list":["post-67175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-alt","tag-country","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}