Brandon Flowers debuted new solo material and joined Lucy Dacus and Nathaniel Rateliff at Newport Folk Festival – watch footage below. ‘Thrasher’ will be released on August 21 via Island Records, marking Flowers’ first solo album since 2015’s ‘The Desired Effect’. He has also said that a second completed solo album will follow ‘Thrasher’. As for The Killers, Flowers has predicted that the band’s eighth studio album will arrive in 2027. “My best guess is that in 2027 you will get the best Killers record,” he said earlier this year.