Royal Blood are back with brand new single 'Trouble's Coming'

Words: Ellie Ward 

Royal Blood are back!

The duo returned today with a brand new single, which is their first since 2017's second album 'How Did We Get So Dark?'

'Trouble's Coming' is the first inkling of what the duo's second album, due to arrive next year, may have in store - and a change is what's there. In a press release it is inferred that their former heavy bass and drums attack is now diluted with influences such as Daft Punk, Justice and the late Phillipe Zdar (one- half of Cassius and producer for the likes of Sébastien Tellier and Hot Chip). As a result, ‘Trouble’s Coming’ infuses Royal Blood’s bombastic up-tempo energy with beats.

“It was the moment something started to click - where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats," explains bassist and vocalist Mike Kerr. "The breakthrough was realising 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. It was all about the beat. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves."

“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 colour in the changes," adds drummer Ben Thatcher. "We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. But this was a different challenge; less varied, maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer.”