royal blood

Following 4 consecutive UK #1 albums, Royal Blood took a breather before asking one question 'How do we set the speakers on fire?". The answer is Dead Company, their fifth album, and lead single 'Ten Over Ten'.

• 1 Dead Company
• 2 Swallow the Bomb
• 3 Ten Over Ten
• 4 Mother Never Told You
• 5 Nowhere All Along
• 6 Ride
• 7 Rear View Mirror
• 8 Take Em All
• 9 Tapping Out
• 10 The Closer

Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. The ten tracks that are featured on How Did We Get So Dark? were written in instrumental form during sessions in Brighton, Los Angeles and Nashville. Always trying to explore ways of stripping their enormous sound back to give it more space and impact, inspiration for the lyrics came from events in vocalist/bassist Mike Kerr's life since the band first found huge success. While the album finds Royal Blood refining their melodic might, there are other moments that fulfil their aim to create songs that will add new dimensions to their live sets. Adorned with Kerr's falsetto, 'Don't Tell' drops the intensity to mesmerizing effect, while 'Where Are You Now?' pulsates with a bounding energy that's quite a step apart from anything else in their catalogue. The Royal Blood palette is also expanded with the inclusion of harmony vocals - something that they didn't use on their debut.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 How Did We Get So Dark?
• 2 Lights Out
• 3 I Only Lie When I Love You
• 4 She's Creeping
• 5 Look Like You Know
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Where Are You Now?
• 2 Don't Tell
• 3 Hook, Line & Sinker
• 4 Hole in Your Heart
• 5 Sleep

Featuring their two singles to date - 'Little Monster' and 'Come On Over' - the album is a mixture of anguished vocals, ferocious drumming and bass that provides intricate detail as well as a rumble of rhythm. Royal Blood are the result of a lineage that stretches from present day heroes Queens of the Stone Age to Led Zeppelin, and all the way back to early blues pioneers. Their ferocious attack is the result of just two men - vocalist/bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Out of the Black
• 2 Come on Over
• 3 Figure It Out
• 4 You Can Be So Cruel
• 5 Blood Hands
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Little Monster
• 2 Loose Change
• 3 Careless
• 4 Ten Tonne Skeleton
• 5 Better Strangers
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 One Trick Pony
• 2 You Want Me
• 3 Love and Leave It Alone
• 4 Sleeptalker
• 5 Ten Tonne Skeleton (Tom Dalgety Mix)
• 6 Hole
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Figure It Out (Live from T in the Park, 2015)
• 2 Loose Change (Live from Reading Festival, 2015)
• 3 Little Monster (Live from Reading Festival, 2015)
• 4 Better Strangers (Live from Bonnaroo, 2015)
• 5 Out of the Black (Live from Reading Festival, 2015)