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Leaving the family nest in his teens to move to Las Vegas and live with his aunt allowed Flowers to flourish as a musician and hit the big time, but he now has a renewed appreciation for the comparatively slow pace of life in Utah. The songs contained on Pressure Machine reflect on Brandon Flowers’ formative years spent growing up and living in a small rural town in Utah, before he moved to Las Vegas and found rock n’ roll stardom with The Killers. Now 40, and a married father of three, he admits to feeling drawn to the same mountainous landscape and idyllic environment that he once struggled to inhabit as an artistic and creatively-minded youngster. Having spent almost two decades as one of the most popular bands in the world - amassing more than 65 million streams in New Zealand alone - Flowers acknowledges that the high-flying rockstar aspect of The Killers is juxtaposed by the introspective nature and themes of small town life contained in the songs on Pressure Machine. So it's an amalgamation of all of these things that makes us what we are.” “And then we also have an admiration for bands like U2, and Rolling Stones and the chameleon David Bowie. “We grew up with the ghosts of Elvis and Sinatra, and stories about Dean Martin and the Rat Pack - it just seemed second nature for us to put on this type of show. Hailing from Las Vegas, it made sense for the group to follow the lead of some of the most iconic individual and group entertainers the world has seen, playing high-energy concerts that are as visually captivating as they are musically. “We're really looking forward to playing some of these Imploding the Mirage tracks and seeing how they sit with some of the older material.” “When we are our best, it's when we're able to make those influences work together.” “You don't usually put those things together,” Flowers acknowledges with a chuckle. The project contrasts with their typically dynamic previous effort, last year’s critically acclaimed top-five New Zealand chart album Imploding the Mirage, which was heavily influenced by an eclectic range of artists including Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen and New Order. Released earlier this year while touring was on hold due to Covid-19, Pressure Machine, The Killers’ seventh studio album, is a quieter character-study-driven record, featuring acoustic-driven numbers Terrible Thing, Sleepwalker, and Runaway Horses (featuring Phoebe Bridges). * 'I'm so lucky': Sir Elton John receives prestigious UK award * Hollie Smith echoes the frustrations of many on beautiful, haunting new album Coming In From the Dark * The Storyteller: Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl opens up about life and loss in new memoir * British rockers Idles return with message of hope and healing on new album Crawler