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Typhoons is the third studio album by English rock duo Royal Blood. The album was released on 30 April 2021, through Warner Records.

Background

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The English rock duo Royal Blood released their second studio album, How Did We Get So Dark?, on 16 June 2017.[1] To support the album's release, the band headlined an arena tour in the United Kingdom and Ireland that November, with support from At the Drive-In and Black Honey.[2] They followed this with a headlining tour in Australia and New Zealand in April and May 2018,[3] and in North America in May and June.[4] During this series of headlining tours, bassist and vocalist Mike Kerr struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction, telling NME in 2021 that "[i]nstead of destroying the bass, I was basically destroying myself".[5] After completing a tour in Las Vegas, Kerr decided to become sober,[6] a decision which he kept a secret for the first year of his sobriety.[7]

Royal Blood also appeared as an opening act for Queens of the Stone Age on the North American leg of the Villains World Tour in September and October.[8] Kerr expressed his excitement at the tour, telling reporters, "when everything started kicking off, the first ambition we had was 'if we can go on the road with Queens of the Stone Age, that would be a huge achievement for us'".[9] When Queens of the Stone Age added more North American tour dates in 2018, Royal Blood joined them for a series of May performances in Canada, Wisconsin, and New York.[10] In November 2017, Kerr told the Evening Standard that touring with Queens of the Stone Age "nearly killed us ... It was absolute carnage."[11] During this period, Kerr and Royal Blood drummer Ben Thatcher became close friends with Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Kerr provided a vocal feature on Vols. 11 & 12, a 2019 album from Homme's side project The Desert Sessions.[12]

Writing and composition

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Royal Blood told NME that Typhoons was inspired by AC/DC, with influences from classic rock, electronic dance music, and disco.[13]

The first track on the album, "Trouble's Coming", adds a synthesizer to Kerr and Thatcher's usual hard rock drum and bass sounds, creating a dance-rock track in the process.[14] The abstract lyrics describe Kerr's struggles with nightmares and mental health, which is juxtaposed against the lighter sound; Kerr told NME that he "felt more comfortable being that honest, that open and vulnerable, because the backdrop was so upbeat".[13]

Recording and production

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Artwork and packaging

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Release and promotion

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Singles and music videos

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Royal Blood first teased their upcoming release on 17 September 2020, when the band posted a photo of a vintage, orange-colored Ford vehicle to their Twitter and Instagram accounts. The vehicle's license plate read "ROYAL", while the post was captioned "24.09".[15] On 21 September, the band posted a teaser of a song titled "Trouble's Coming" on Instagram.[16] The full track was released three days later as the lead single for Royal Blood's then-untitled third album.[17] The band released a music video for "Trouble's Coming" on 23 October 2020. Directed by Dir. Lx, the video depicts a bloody Kerr navigating a darkened landscape.[18]

Tours and live performances

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With COVID-19 restrictions impacting Royal Blood's ability to tour in 2021, the band announced "a few intimate gigs" in the United Kingdom in July 2021 to promote their new album.[19] This was followed by a European and UK arena tour in March and April 2022, with support from The Amazons.[20] One stop on this tour was Swansea, where Royal Blood played the first-ever concert at the Swansea Arena on 8 March 2022.[21] Five performances on the European tour were canceled or postponed after Kerr tested positive for the COVID-19 virus on 31 March, causing him to lose his voice.[22][23]

After completing their European tour with The Amazons, Royal Blood traveled to North America for another headlining tour in April and May 2022, this time with support from Cleopatrick.[24]

Reception

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Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.4/10[25]
Metacritic77/100[26]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[27]
Clash7/10[28]
Classic Rock[29]
DIY[30]
Evening Standard[31]
The Independent[32]
Kerrang!4/5[33]
The Line of Best Fit8/10[34]
NME[35]
Under the Radar[36]

Typhoons was met with mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Typhoons has an average score of 77 based on 14 reviews.[26] The review aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album 7.4 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[25]

American Songwriter[37] The FT[38] Gigwise[39] No Ripcord[40] Vinyl Chapters[41] XS Noize[42]

Commercial performance

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Accolades

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Track listing

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Personnel

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Credits adapted from the Typhoons liner notes.[43]

Royal Blood

  • Mike Kerr – bass, keyboards, vocals, backing vocals, clavinet, therevox
  • Ben Thatcher – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

  • Bobbie Gordon – backing vocals (1–2, 4, 9)
  • Jodie Scantlebury – backing vocals (2, 4, 9)

Technical

  • Royal Blood – production (1–3, 5–7, 9–11)
  • Paul Epworth – additional production (1), production (4)
  • Riley Macintyre – engineering (1, 4, 11), vocal production (5), mixing (11)
  • Pete Hutchings – engineering (1, 2, 9), mixing (2, 9, 12–13)
  • Matt Wiggins – additional engineering (1), engineering (3, 5–7, 10)
  • Claude Vause – engineering assistance (1, 7, 10)
  • Marcus Locock – engineering assistance (1, 3, 6–7, 10)
  • Matty Green – mixing (1, 3–8, 10)
  • Luke Pickering – engineering assistance (4, 5, 11)
  • Josh Homme – production (8, 12–13)
  • Mark Rankin – engineering (8, 12–13)
  • Justin Smith – engineering assistance (8, 12–13)
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering

Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications and sales for Typhoons
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[68] Silver 60,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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