After moving back to Utah, Flowers began to pull the curtain back on The Killers’ most recent album, 2021’s Pressure Machine . Though most often associated with Las Vegas, most of Flowers’ youth actually occurred in Nephi, the small Utah town some two hours south of Salt Lake City. Now back home again, he showed his own children the scenes that made him who he was as a young man. Much of the music Flowers has worked on in the ensuing five years began as a direct continuation, forging deeper into foundational sounds and foundational memories. He began to recognize the “big and shiny fantasy” of Las Vegas that so often courses through The Killers’ music wasn’t the right home for this writing, and he embarked on his first solo endeavor in over a decade. 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’ — and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition .”