I can’t say I’ve followed The Killers’ career closely but I’ve liked what I’ve heard, which is mainly the hit singles, without delving deeper.

Here’s their latest one – “boy” – and it instantly hits the spot with its slow-burn synths and chiming guitars and heroic vocalising, with an emotional undercurrent to the lyrics.

That seems to be their signature style – they’re the band U2 might have been if they’d formed 20 years later in the Joshua Tree desert instead of just making a record named after it.

The Killers come from the Nevada Desert’s most notable conurbation, Las Vegas, which lends their sound a certain seedy glamour and, at least in my imagination, a hint of Americana.

This is another stadium-filling anthem; in fact, they’ve just finished filling stadiums across the UK, including the Arsenal stadium up the road from me, with their anthems.

Brandon Flowers, the singer who is now in his forties and is surely Mormonism’s number one poster boy, wrote the song after the pandemic caused The Killers to cancel their previous tour.

He moved back to his home state of Utah and the small town, Nephi, where he had grown up: the subject of their last album Pressure Machine, which included snippets of interviews with residents.

“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,” he says.

“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.”