Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan reviews "Thrasher," Killers frontman Brandon Flowers' third solo album and his first full foray into country music. Flowers says the record draws on his Utah childhood listening to Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash, and he enlisted respected Nashville players including guitarist David Rawlings and veteran harmonica player Charlie McCoy to help realise the sound.

The critic finds Flowers a capable, if not entirely convincing, country stylist, praising tracks such as "Red Ground" and "Tiger's Blood" for balancing twang with his familiar arena-rock instincts. However, the review argues the album falters when Flowers leans into heavy-handed, melodramatic storytelling on songs like "Miss America" and the closer "An American Dream," which features a bizarre imagined encounter with Elvis Presley driving a Tesla. Overall, the piece concludes the songs are too overwrought to land as serious drama but not knowing enough to work as intentional comedy.