Royal blood lights out review7/31/2023 ![]() Remaining in the dingy depths of Kerr’s romance-filled issues, ‘She’s Creeping’ details Kerr’s obsessive infatuated state further. Amongst singles such as ‘Lights Out’, ‘I Only Lie When I Love You’, ‘How Did We Get So Dark?’ and ‘Hole In Your Heart’, closer and deep cut ‘Sleep’ sees Royal Blood climax with a four-minute slow burning belter that swaggers with pure loud confidence and lyrics that let the love jealous mind wander to dark thoughts as a result of a troubled relationship, one that is hitting the rocks hard: “I just can’t help myself/Thinking you’re with someone else/Sick to the bone/I don’t wanna sleep” sings Kerr in its killer chorus. Royal Blood’s sophomore album ‘How Did We Get So Dark?’ is a ten track album full of monstrous riffs and bombastic drums that maintain the intensity of the debut but maybe lacked a little creative difference. Mike Kerr’s simply sublime vocals that croon ‘Cruel’ throughout its chorus and Ben Thatcher’s crashing percussion that clammer in coalition with Kerr’s circling riff to create a super cool Queens Of The Stone Age inspired tune.įollowing up on a colossal first album didn't prove to be a hard task for this rock duo. You’ve probably heard the opening bass riff of ‘You Can Be So Cruel’ plastered across British mainstream TV shows circa 2014, yet the song still remains in the shadows of its singles. ![]() Song ‘Blood Hands’ lies beneath the album's big singles including ‘Out Of The Black’, ‘Little Monster’, ‘Come On Over’ and ‘Figure It Out’ with a more subdued tempo than its counterparts, but it's slower speed allies each bass riff and drum beat to elongate in the punch they deliver. “I just can’t love you like I used to” rings out Kerr’s vocals, as an entirely electrifying bass riff in the bridge batters its way between Kerr’s vocals emulating the high pitched riff of his bass that screeches throughout.īursting onto the rock scene back in 2014, the punchy and powerful force of a sound this Brighton duo make with just a bass and a drum kit can be found on the Brighton duo’s debut self-titled studio album. The warming up and tuning of the bass guitar starts the song, before the colossal combination of Mike’s bass guitar and Ben’s drums burst into the song like a bulldozer out for full destruction. One final B-Side for the road, and on the flip side to the brutal whirs of ‘Ten Tonne Skeleton’, ‘One Trick Pony’ is anything but a one trick kind of tune. A B-Side not to be skipped in the slightest. ‘Hole’, however, turbo blasts the early bluesy rock sound the band went for, with huge volumes and sublime vocals making massive waves throughout the ear deafening track. Perhaps the best B-Side in Royal Blood’s string of the single offcuts, ‘Hole’ features on the flip-side to 2014’s ‘Little Monster’, a gargantuan-sized song that broke the band out across Europe and the rest of the world. Up against Royal Blood’s biggest hit, ‘Love and Leave It Alone’ holds its own as a song that should have made it onto the self-titled album. ![]() ![]() “So love and leave it alone/You know why and I knew the second when/I've heard you're quite like a stone/I've grown tired and I'm losing you again” croons Kerr in the killer chorus, his vocals swaying in and out of attitude and smoothness throughout the song. Serving as the B-Side to the bands smash hit ‘Figure It Out’, ‘Love and Leave It Alone’ is a supercharged slice of hard rock. Mike Kerr’s recognisable heavy sounding bass riffs and Ben Thatcher’s booming drum beats make for a massively memorable jam, with an equal mass appeal to rival that of its A-Side counterpart ‘Out Of The Black’. Listen: Jack White, Royal Blood and Maná each share their best of Led Zeppelin playlistsĪcting as a B-Side to their single ’Come On Over’, ‘You Want Me’ puts a funky punk spin on noisy garage rock from the early days of Royal Blood.
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