ROYAL BLOOD - TYPHOONS

1 Trouble's Coming
2 Oblivion
3 Typhoons
4 Who Needs Friends
5 Million and One
1 Limbo
2 Either You Want It
3 Boilermaker
4 Mad Visions
5 Hold on
6 All We Have Is Now

When Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher sat down to talk about making a new album, they knew what they wanted to achieve. It involved a conscious return to their roots, back when they had made music that was influenced by Daft Punk, Justice, and Philippe Zdar of Cassius. It also called for a similar back-to-basics approach to what had made their self-titled debut album so thrilling, visceral and original. Those traits pulsate throughout the new single and title track. Kerr's spiralling bass riff casts an hypnotic allure as it grows in intensity, while his vocals switch at will between a raw rock roar and a soulful falsetto. It's underpinned by Thatcher's thundering beats, his taut rhythms infused with groove-laden hi-hats.