Royal Blood Release New Video For Single ‘Typhoons’

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Following on from the release of their latest single ‘Typhoons’, Royal Blood have now shared an accompanying music video.

The new video – directed by Quentin Deronzier – See’s the duo performing their new track atop a carpark nearby the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. The new video see’s “Royal Blood cast a magnetic spell across the city resulting in hundreds of people sprinting to join them.” read’s the press release for the video. “As a storm erupts, the duo are surrounded: a typhoon looms large over them, its movements mirrored by the intense, spiralling reaction of the crowd below.” An amazing representation for the song.

“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.”

‘Typhoons’ is taken from Royal Blood’s upcoming third album of the same name, which is set to release on April 30 via Warner Records. 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.

‘Typhoons’:

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’

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’: