The Killers deliver their second new album since the COVID-19 pandemic began with Pressure Machine. It follows the release of 2020’s Imploding the Mirage, and includes a lone feature from Phoebe Bridgers.
“We’d spoken about this, almost jokingly said, ‘This type of sh-t, I’m really feeling this,’ not those words, but we were talking about this era and these times,” Ronnie Vannucci Jr. told Paste Magazine. “Then the sky fell with COVID, and it put us in this zone. I keep calling it a zone because it felt like a f-cking zone. You were sequestered. You were stuck in this place with this feeling. Nobody was sure what was going on, and [there were] stay-at-home orders. It evoked this feeling, and it just put us in a place, and we decided to bloodhound it and track it down and follow it and make this record.”
