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Pressure Machine
Pressure Machine is the seventh studio album by American rock band the Killers. It was released on August 13, 2021. The album features the return of guitarist Dave Keuning to the studio with the band, after his absence on the previous album, Imploding the Mirage, while bassist Mark Stoermer was absent due to difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic during recording. Jonathan Rado and Shawn Everett returned to produce the album.
Pressure Machine is a concept album based on lead singer Brandon Flowers' childhood in Nephi, Utah. The album features a guest collaboration from singer Phoebe Bridgers on the track "Runaway Horses". Heavily influenced by Bruce Springsteen, lyrical influences also include The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
Pressure Machine has received generally positive reviews from critics and charted moderately well in a number of territories. It reached number nine on the US Billboard 200 and topped both the Top Rock Albums and Top Folk Albums charts, becoming the band's first album to chart on the latter. The album also became the Killers' seventh consecutive number-one album on the UK Albums Chart. No singles were released from the album, although music videos were produced for "Quiet Town" and "Runaway Horses" as well as "The Getting By II" from the deluxe edition.
Pressure Machine originated during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic when the Killers recognized that the planned Imploding the Mirage Tour would have to be postponed. Although the Killers briefly considered using some of the songs left over from Imploding the Mirage to start their next album, they instead chose to embrace the idea of a concept record based on Brandon Flowers's childhood. Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. described the choice by saying “But the sky was falling and we were hit with this emotion – especially Brandon. We wanted to do something following that feeling. I remember him saying, ‘Follow me down this road’. We put those songs to the side and embarked on something new and fresh. That's what became ‘Pressure Machine’.” Dave Keuning rejoined the band in studio after having completed his own solo album A Mild Case of Everything, released in June 2021.
Musically, the album has been described as Americana, heartland rock and folk rock. Flowers decided to write all the lyrics to the album prior to writing the album's music, and in the process tried to reflect on his own childhood.
For "Quiet Town", Flowers reflected on a teenage couple, Tiffany JaNae Taylor and Raymond Leo Newton, that were killed at a grade crossing accident with a Union Pacific train in 1994 when both were 17 years old. "Here, 25 years later, I was still really affected by this train accident from when I was in the eighth grade ... Two seniors from the high school were killed. I had seen one of them that morning. They had a baby. I didn't go to grief counselling, they weren't my best friends – but I was just shocked at how emotional I was when I started to write this verse." Other aspects of the lyrics were based on the opioid epidemic, with the opening track "West Hills" narrating the story of an opioid addict in "possession of them hillbilly heroin pills."
The lyrics for the song "Terrible Thing" were written from the perspective of a gay teenager contemplating suicide as Flowers described, "There were kids I grew up with who I didn't know until years later that they were gay ... It must have just been so hard. I think the world is moving in a more positive direction and a more inclusive direction, but this was still in the 90s and people kept this stuff close." The song "Runaway Horses" featuring Phoebe Bridgers was partially inspired by her own cover of "Human" in 2019.
For recording the band chose to use analog recording methods. As Flowers described, "You can get caught up in having money, and having time, in studios, and laboring over something. We were definitely guilty of that. This was different. Shawn was not allowed to mix on the computer. We are mixing on a board, old school to tape, and we weren't making a bunch of changes. We're going to try to keep the dust on this thing." Sonically, the band took inspiration from Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen. Influence for the spoken word interludes came from This American Life.
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Pressure Machine
Pressure Machine is the seventh studio album by American rock band the Killers. It was released on August 13, 2021. The album features the return of guitarist Dave Keuning to the studio with the band, after his absence on the previous album, Imploding the Mirage, while bassist Mark Stoermer was absent due to difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic during recording. Jonathan Rado and Shawn Everett returned to produce the album.
Pressure Machine is a concept album based on lead singer Brandon Flowers' childhood in Nephi, Utah. The album features a guest collaboration from singer Phoebe Bridgers on the track "Runaway Horses". Heavily influenced by Bruce Springsteen, lyrical influences also include The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
Pressure Machine has received generally positive reviews from critics and charted moderately well in a number of territories. It reached number nine on the US Billboard 200 and topped both the Top Rock Albums and Top Folk Albums charts, becoming the band's first album to chart on the latter. The album also became the Killers' seventh consecutive number-one album on the UK Albums Chart. No singles were released from the album, although music videos were produced for "Quiet Town" and "Runaway Horses" as well as "The Getting By II" from the deluxe edition.
Pressure Machine originated during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic when the Killers recognized that the planned Imploding the Mirage Tour would have to be postponed. Although the Killers briefly considered using some of the songs left over from Imploding the Mirage to start their next album, they instead chose to embrace the idea of a concept record based on Brandon Flowers's childhood. Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. described the choice by saying “But the sky was falling and we were hit with this emotion – especially Brandon. We wanted to do something following that feeling. I remember him saying, ‘Follow me down this road’. We put those songs to the side and embarked on something new and fresh. That's what became ‘Pressure Machine’.” Dave Keuning rejoined the band in studio after having completed his own solo album A Mild Case of Everything, released in June 2021.
Musically, the album has been described as Americana, heartland rock and folk rock. Flowers decided to write all the lyrics to the album prior to writing the album's music, and in the process tried to reflect on his own childhood.
For "Quiet Town", Flowers reflected on a teenage couple, Tiffany JaNae Taylor and Raymond Leo Newton, that were killed at a grade crossing accident with a Union Pacific train in 1994 when both were 17 years old. "Here, 25 years later, I was still really affected by this train accident from when I was in the eighth grade ... Two seniors from the high school were killed. I had seen one of them that morning. They had a baby. I didn't go to grief counselling, they weren't my best friends – but I was just shocked at how emotional I was when I started to write this verse." Other aspects of the lyrics were based on the opioid epidemic, with the opening track "West Hills" narrating the story of an opioid addict in "possession of them hillbilly heroin pills."
The lyrics for the song "Terrible Thing" were written from the perspective of a gay teenager contemplating suicide as Flowers described, "There were kids I grew up with who I didn't know until years later that they were gay ... It must have just been so hard. I think the world is moving in a more positive direction and a more inclusive direction, but this was still in the 90s and people kept this stuff close." The song "Runaway Horses" featuring Phoebe Bridgers was partially inspired by her own cover of "Human" in 2019.
For recording the band chose to use analog recording methods. As Flowers described, "You can get caught up in having money, and having time, in studios, and laboring over something. We were definitely guilty of that. This was different. Shawn was not allowed to mix on the computer. We are mixing on a board, old school to tape, and we weren't making a bunch of changes. We're going to try to keep the dust on this thing." Sonically, the band took inspiration from Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen. Influence for the spoken word interludes came from This American Life.