Brandon Flowers has released "Tiger's Blood," the latest single from his forthcoming solo album Thrasher, which arrives 21 August 2026 via Island Records (Rolling Stone).

Island Records flagged the single on its Facebook page on 5 August, telling followers it would be out "this Friday" (Island Records, Facebook). The track landed on schedule on 7 August.

"Tiger's Blood" was recorded in Nashville with producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, who handled the entire Thrasher album. The sessions took place at Historic RCA Studio A, a room with deep roots in both country and pop recording (Island Records). The musician credits read like a Nashville roll call: David Rawlings on guitar, Bruce Bouton on pedal steel, and Charlie McCoy on harmonica (Rolling Stone).

That personnel lines up with how Flowers himself describes the record. "I unlocked a room that I feel that has been waiting for me all along: country western music," he told Rolling Stone. It is a deliberate pivot for a frontman best known as the voice of the Killers, the Las Vegas rock band whose synth-driven anthems fill stadiums. Thrasher is his first solo album in over a decade (Universal Music Canada).

The single arrived with a live preview already in the rear-view: Flowers debuted "Tiger's Blood" during his set at the Newport Folk Fest the week before its official release. Prior to that, he had shared two earlier singles from the album — "Paradise" and "Plans," the latter identified by Billboard as the lead single released alongside the album announcement (Billboard) — as well as a live version of "Plans" filmed at RCA Studio A. The confirmed tracklist also includes "Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?" and "One of Us" (Universal Music Canada).

The album rollout extends to the road. Flowers' Thrasher tour begins 1 September in Phoenix and closes 6 October in Las Vegas (Rolling Stone). A standard cassette edition of the album is priced at £10.99 and available in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Brandon Flowers, official UK store).

What gives the project an extra edge is Flowers' own candour about his trajectory. In an interview with the Times, he said he had considered quitting music in recent years (Rolling Stone). An official album trailer has been live on his YouTube channel since early July (Brandon Flowers, YouTube).

For listeners, the through-line is straightforward: a songwriter stepping into a genre he says he has long circled, backed by session players who have spent their careers inside it. Whether country western becomes more than a single-album room for Flowers is a question the tour dates and the chart numbers will answer in the coming months.