Album review: Pressure Machine, by The Killers - watertight songs depart from their arena bombast 

Phoebe Bridgers also makes a guest appearance on Pressure Machine for a duet with Brandon Flowers on Runaway Horses 
Album review: Pressure Machine, by The Killers - watertight songs depart from their arena bombast 

Brandon Flowers of The Killers. Picture: Taylor Hill/Getty Images

★★★☆☆

Everyone has a lockdown album in them. Or so we must conclude as The Killers follow in the footsteps of Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and Nick Cave with Pressure Machine. Assembled during the hollowed-out months of mid-2020, it’s a concept record about… well, where to start?

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