℗ 2022 The Killers, under exclusive license to Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings
| Released | August 5, 2022 |
| Duration | 3m 18s |
| Record Label | The Killers - 2020/ Island |
| Genre | Alternative |
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The Killers have returned with their first new release since 2021’s Pressure Machine album, the anthemic new single “boy.”
Written before the songs that made up Pressure Machine, the themes explored in “boy” helped lead frontman and principal songwriter Brandon Flowers to the subjects that would eventually be the focus of that record.
“This was the first song written after we had to cancel the Imploding The Mirage tour due to the pandemic,” Flowers explained in a press release. “I had recently moved back to Utah and started to make trips to Nephi, where I grew up. I found that the place I had wanted to get away from so desperately at 16 was now a place that I couldn’t stop returning to.
I have a son approaching the age I was at that time in my life. With ‘boy’, I want to reach out and tell myself – and my sons – to not overthink it. And to look for the ‘white arrows’ in their lives. For me now, white arrows are my wife, children, my songs and the stage.”
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – The Killers - 2020/ Island Studio Masters
Track 1 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Track 1 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
| 1 | boy | -0.20 | -9.38 | -6.5 | 4 |