Royal Blood debuted a new single “Trouble’s Coming”. The song will be on their still untitled third album, which is expected in spring 2021. The new album will follow 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark?
The band describes “Trouble’s Coming” as “infusing Royal Blood’s bombastic up-tempo energy with beats.”
“’Trouble’s Coming’ concisely tees up what to expect from Royal Blood’s third album: a very organic infusion of their visceral hard rock sting with a disco-tinged rhythm that grooves rather than pummels. As the duo started work on the project, which was largely self-produced at The Church and Sleeper Sounds in London, the song proved to be the turning point in the creative process.
Vocalist/bassist Mike Kerr explains the track:
“It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats. The breakthrough was realizing 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: Daft Punk, Justice, things that were really groove-orientated. It was all about the beat. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves.”
Drummer Ben Thatcher added:
“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 color in the changes. We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. But this was a different challenge; less varied, maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer.”
According to the band, lyrically, “Trouble’s Coming” is about looking inward to recognize the warning signs before a situation erupts into chaos. They added that they song can be seen as an allegory for their own experience. Royal Blood said success is more complicated than it first seems, and the demands it brings makes finding the time to regain perspective ever more elusive.
