Typhoons Royal Blood

• 1 Trouble’s Coming 03:48
• 2 Oblivion 02:41
• 3 Typhoons 03:56
• 4 Who Needs Friends 03:10
• 5 Million and One 04:18
• 6 Limbo 04:53
• 7 Either You Want It 03:00
• 8 Boilermaker 03:29
• 9 Mad Visions 03:09
• 10 Hold On 03:14
• 11 All We Have Is Now 02:33
• Total Runtime 38:11

Info for Typhoons

Royal Blood’s ‘Trouble’s Coming’ was an incendiary statement of intent that signalled that the duo are primed to be bigger than ever. That anticipation was magnified when they unveiled the follow-up single ‘Typhoons’. Again premiered as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in the World and immediately playlisted at Radio 1, the track whipped up a whirlwind of critical acclaim plus high impact across the board.

Royal Blood’s relentless return continues as they today unveil the official video for ‘Typhoons’. Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher hit the rooftop of a carpark next to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to deliver a potent performance of the track. As the track reverberates across the London skyline, Royal Blood cast a magnetic spell across the city resulting in hundreds of people sprinting to join them. 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.

The video represents their first collaboration with Quentin Deronzier. Renowned for his visuals for Drake, Orelsan and Kanye West, the director puts a new slant on Royal Blood’s aesthetic, adding otherworldly cinematics and inner city style. It also feels like an apt stylistic successor to the ‘Trouble’s Coming’ video, which was directed by Dir. LX (Dave, Bugzy Malone, Kojo Funds

The two singles present an arresting introduction to Royal Blood’s third album ‘Typhoons’, which follows on April 30th. It represents a natural evolution in their sound, flavouring the raw attack that made their self-titled debut album so thrilling, visceral and original with rhythmic influences from Daft Punk, Justice, and Philippe Zdar of Cassius.

Royal Blood

Royal Blood
Brighton duo Royal Blood channeled the blues-rock dynamism of the likes of the White Stripes, the Black Keys, and Two Gallants, yet they amped up the ferocity and volume with scuzzy riffs and blustering energy. Comprising drummer Ben Thatcher and bassist/vocalist Mike Kerr, the two-piece formed at the beginning of 2013 when Kerr returned from a trip to Australia and Thatcher picked him up from the airport.

They managed to play their first show the very next day and continued to write new material throughout the year. Although constrained to just two instruments, they made their presence known with pounding drums and heavily distorted bass guitar that drove the melodic intensity of their songs, alongside Kerr's emotive vocals. They were championed by the BBC on their Sound of 2014 list, as well as Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders, who wore their T-shirt during their headlining 2013 Glastonbury performance and invited them to open their huge Finsbury Park shows.

The duo then released the single "Out of the Black" and signed to Warner Bros. later that year. A second single, "Little Monster," appeared in February of 2014, while a four-song EP, Out of the Black, came a month later in March, collecting the A- and B-sides of the two singles. Their debut self-titled full length was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and was released later that year.

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