Royal Blood Announce Third Album And Release Title Track ‘Typhoons’

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Royal Blood has announced details of their upcoming new album ‘Typhoons’, the announcement was made alongside the release of the title track.

The new track was premiered on BBC Radio 1 this evening on Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, and follows on from the first single ‘Trouble’s Coming’ on the duo’s upcoming third album. Check out the new track below.

‘Typhoons’ which sees the band return to their roots, will release on April 30th via Warner Records.

“We sort of stumbled on this sound, and it was immediately fun to play,” Kerr recalls. “That’s what sparked the creativity on the new album, the chasing of that feeling. It’s weird, though – if you think back to ‘Figure it Out’, it kind of contains the embryo of this album. We realised that we didn’t have to completely destroy what we’d created so far; we just had to shift it, change it. On paper, it’s a small reinvention. But when you hear it, it sounds so fresh.”

The new single will be released on a limited edition black 7″ vinyl, featuring an etching of a lyric on the b-side, and will be available to order from here.

Here’s ‘Typhoons’ tracklist:

1. ‘Trouble’s Coming’
2. ‘Oblivion’
3. ‘Typhoons’
4. ‘Who Needs Friends’
5. ‘Million & One’
6. ‘Limbo’
7. ‘Either You Want It’
8. ‘Boilermaker’
9. ‘Mad Visions’
10. ‘Hold On’
11. ‘All We Have Is Now’

After setting the tone with ‘Trouble’s Coming’, the album opens in breathless, take-no-prisoners style with the fierce metallic grooves of ‘Who Needs Friends’ hitting an early visceral peak. Royal Blood further references their fresh array of influences by deploying vocodered vocals on ‘Million & One’ before dynamically switching between the biggest contrasts of their sound with ‘Limbo’. Already a fan favourite having been a regular during the duo’s 2019 shows, ‘Boilermaker’ lives up to its reputation and is more than matched by ‘Mad Visions’, which evokes a hyper-aggressive Prince. It ends with a final surprise in the shape of the stark piano ballad ‘All We Have Is Now’, a vulnerable and revealing reminder to live in the moment.

The new album was largely produced by themselves, with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme producing ‘Boilermaker’, and multiple Grammy Award winner Paul Epworth producing ‘Who Needs Friends’ and contributed additional production to ‘Trouble’s Coming’.

‘Typoons’ will be available from the official Royal Blood store in a deluxe vinyl edition, which will be limited to 8000 copies worldwide. The deluxe edition features a translucent pink / opaque black 12” housed in a metallic foil gatefold sleeve, and will be packaged with an exclusive 7” single containing the extra track ‘Space’ and an etched b-side. It will be completed by a large format booklet and an individually numbered 12” art print with alternative art that’s exclusive to this set. ‘Typhoons’ is now available to pre-order here.

The new album will also be available on Blue vinyl from indies, and Pink vinyl from Amazon. A picture disc is also available.

Talking about the first single ‘Trouble’s Coming’, Mike Kerr revealed that the song was a real turning point for the third album, saying “It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats. The breakthrough was realizing that there was real common ground between that and what we’d done before. It’s that AC/DC aspect: where the quality that makes the riffs seem so cutting is because of that beat. Although on the surface we were stepping outside what we’d done before, it didn’t feel at all unnatural; it felt like we were returning to music we’d loved from the very beginning: Daft Punk, Justice, things that were really groove-orientated. It was all about the beat. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves.”

Drummer Ben Thatcher adds “When we first broke out, there were only two elements to the band. I didn’t just have to carry the beat, I’d have to color in the changes. We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. But this was a different challenge; less varied, maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer.”

Here’s ‘Trouble’s Coming’: