ROYAL BLOOD // Announce New Album

Typhoons is the third album set to be released by the Brighton duo Royal Blood in late April.

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The album follows on from the band’s previous albums How Did We Get So Dark? (2017) and the self titled album Royal Blood (2014).

Previously, Royal Blood have scored the praise of two UK #1 albums and have had over 2 million album sales. The band continues to surprise their fans with the new music and especially with their new sound on the Typhoons album.

Trouble’s Coming was the first single which was released off the upcoming 12 track album, which Royal Blood describes it as “hitting a melting pot of fiery rock riffs and danceable beats, [delivering] something fresh, unexpected and yet entirely in tune” with the band’s reputation within the music scene.

Band members, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher, talk about the creation of the new album, saying that “we sort of stumbled on this sound, and it was immediately fun to play with. 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 (2014 single) it kind of contains the embryo of this album … on paper it’s a small reinvention. But when you hear it, it sounds so fresh.”

The Typhoons album is said to be a ‘conscious return to the band’s roots’, drawing influence from artists such as Draft Punk, Justice and Philippe Zdar of Cassius. 

Royal Blood have self produced the majority of the Typhoon album, but also enlisted the help of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme on Boilermaker, and multiple Grammy Award winner Paul Epworth produced Who Needs Friends and also contributed to Trouble’s Coming.

Typhoons will be released on the 30th April. Right now the album is available for pre-order, and will be released on digital, vinyl and CD formats. The official Royal Blood store offers a deluxe vinyl packaged with a bonus 7” single, featuring an extra track Space, and an art print, a picture disc and a selection of cassette bundles.