Brandon Flowers - Thrasher (Exclusive Molten Lava Vinyl)

• Available August 21st, 2026
• All ship orders including this title will be held back

Thrasher is Brandon Flowers' first solo album in over a decade. The record features many of Music City’s most renowned players, including longtime Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings on guitar, prolific and influential pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and Charlie McCoy, the legendary harmonica player whose signature playing graces all four of Bob Dylan’s iconic Nashville records. Rooted in his formative childhood years in the small town of Nephi, Utah, the timeless sonic approach proves to be the ideal home for Flowers’ most personal and vulnerable songwriting yet. 

Though Americana and Western stylings have often mingled with the alternative traditions in The Killers’ DNA as far back as their 2006 sophomore outing Sam’s Town all the way on to Pressure Machine, Flowers found that he’d tapped a new, rich vein of his songwriting: “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found my way back to my father’s music - ‘Country-Western’ (as he called it) - and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition,” he says.

It was only an idiosyncratically and eternally American form that allowed Flowers to find the grain and gravity he needed. He wrote honky-tonk ragers, highway rambles, and winsome ballads, all lived-in and organic. Much of Thrasher features songs written in persona thinly veiling stories about Flowers’ friends and family from his teenage years until now, all rendered with the balance of sadness and humour inherent to country music.

Though each song emerges from love in some form, many catalogue darker events. In the end, Thrasher is a heartfelt and adventurous document of all the people Flowers has known and loved and feared, but also a portrait of a man making peace with himself and the places, sights, and sounds that made him.

Exclusive MOLTEN LAVA vinyl produced by Island Records in 2026. 

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