Big massive rock songs that punch you in the face.
It’s safe to say that when
Royal Blood released their first album in 2014 they very quickly became a massive band. Now it’s three years later and they’ve returned with the follow-up ‘
How Did We Get So Dark?’. Singer/bassist Mike Kerr carries himself on this record with the self-assured swagger of a frontman who knows his stuff, and even though at times the lyrics have the emotional delicacy of a 15-year-old cracking a nut with a sledgehammer it’s clear that both him and band mate Ben Thatcher have grown as musicians from the very first notes of the QOTSA-esque title track.
Considering the two-piece dynamic of a band, they’ve come out with songs that sound so much larger. ‘
I Only Lie When I Love You’ smoothly waltzes through with licks left right and centre and cowbell keeping them in line, ‘
Look Like You Know’ is a fist pumper made for the biggest stages, whilst the previously released ‘
Where Are You Now?’ has been redone and dialled up to become THE anthem that bands dream of writing. The album’s finest moment comes on ‘
Hook, Line & Sinker’ with its opening riff the size of a black hole dragging you into what is surely one day to be considered a classic.
