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Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review – An all-in love letter to the country rock the Killers frontman grew up on

Brandon Flowers was once a teenager obsessed with New Order and The Smiths. Now he’s a 45-year-old dad embracing his inner Garth Brooks

By Ed Power
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#1200
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21 Aug 2026, 04:04 UTC
Last checked
24 Aug 2026, 04:39 UTC
Version history
2 versions
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
21 Aug 2026, 03:15 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Ed Power
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Brandon Flowers was once a teenager obsessed with New Order and The Smiths. Now he’s a 45-year-old dad embracing his inner Garth Brooks
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    Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review – An all-in love letter to the country rock the Killers frontman grew up on

    Brandon Flowers was once a teenager obsessed with New Order and The Smiths. Now he’s a 45-year-old dad embracing his inner Garth Brooks

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    Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review – An all-in love letter to the country rock he grew up on

    The Killers frontman was once a teenager obsessed with New Order and The Smiths. Now he’s a 45-year-old dad embracing his inner Garth Brooks

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  • machine language-signal Investigation language observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
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#1271
Observed
22 Aug 2026, 15:21 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
822,047 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt
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