Royal Blood Share New Single ‘Limbo’

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Royal Blood have shared the third single ‘Limbo’ from their upcoming third album ‘Typhoons’. The band describe the new single as the “most ambitious and wildest” song they’ve written to date. Check out the new single below.

The new track is arguably the most boundary-pushing moment on the upcoming album. The luminous mirrorball synth that shines from the hook stands out as being a bold step into the unknown, but the tight, battering rhythms of the verses feel like Royal Blood at their most primal. And by the time those two elements coalesce into the song’s powerful finale, it’s apparent that the duo have created something remarkably different while staying true to the band’s roots.

Talking about the new track, the band comments “It is without a doubt the most ambitious and wildest we have allowed ourselves to be and we can’t wait to invite you this far down the rabbit hole with us.”

Check out the new track here:

The band will perform the new track for the first time when they appear as avatars during a three-song virtual show at the 2021 Bloxy Awards.

The ceremony will see Roblox’s celebration of the passion, talent, and creativity of the Roblox community of creators and players, will take place at noon PDT (7:00 GMT) on March 27th via the Roblox platform.

‘Limbo’ 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.

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’: