Royal Blood - Typhoons

Typhoons is the third studio album by British rock duo Royal Blood, released in April 2021 via Mammoth and Warner Records.

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.

“We sort of stumbled on this sound, and it was immediately fun to play,” recalls Kerr. “That’s what sparked the creativity on the new album, the chasing of that feeling. It’s weird, though; if you think back to ‘Figure it Out’, it kind of contains the embryo of this album. We realised that we didn’t have to completely destroy what we’d created so far; we just had to shift it, change it. On paper, it’s a small reinvention. But when you hear it, it sounds so fresh.”

The new album also marks a shift in the band's sound, pairing their usual alternative and hard rock sounds with elements of dance-rock and disco.

This album is an indies record stores limited edition on translucent blue coloured vinyl with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Germany via Warner Records.