Royal Blood (Photo: Lloyd Hendricks for Live4ever Media)
Royal Blood have returned to their How Did We Get So Dark? album with a video for its title-track.
The promo was directed by The Sacred Egg, and is premiered just after the duo supported Queens Of The Stone Age in New York yesterday. That association will continue in Los Angeles next February.
Live4ever was left feeling Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher’should ‘grab the bull by the horns, and kill or be killed‘ after our review of their second studio LP:
“When you’re consciously trading on image free, the other side of the success equation needs to be music which can be easily digested, and a couple of listens to Why Did We Get So Dark? quickly reveals that pragmatism has shaped it rather than a desire to fix the unbroken. Clocking in at an attention span minded thirty five minutes or so, like its predecessor there’s a familiar economy at work, both in terms of creative vista and song-craft.”
“What the two have tweaked is to generally turn everything up to 12; Kerr’s crunching riffage is now brutal to the point of mild hysteria. On the titular opener he sits this muddy, unrelenting low end against his own puckish vocals, the falsetto harmonies ascendant with the middle ground a vacuum where no prisoners are taken.”
