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Back To The Water Below

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released September 8, 2023 | Warner Records

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The English duo have gone on a strange journey with their last two albums. Typhoons, released in 2021, which strongly favored electro and danceable rhythms à la French Touch, divided their original fanbase all while garnering a new, wider audience. Everyone expected the group to fully own their U-turn and throw themselves into new experiments in sound, but instead, we’re faced with a record that’s more rock, and unavoidably calls back to the two first albums spawned by Royal Blood. However…although everything starts off strong with massive, stoner rock (“Mountains at Midnight” as the opener, “Tell Me When It’s Too Late”), Back to the Water Below still possesses a certain sense of pop melody, notably on the vocals, which prevents this new release from being simply classified as a step backwards.     What remains constant is their amazing way of getting into the groove on every riff. Fun fact: although it’s hard not to compare certain songs from the first (or even the second) album to the work of the legendary Queens of the Stone Age, the parallel is, in a way, still valid, as the new tracks evoke again and again the atmosphere Josh Homme’s group have developed since their album …Like Clockwork. What may be missing is that little twist that hooks you in, which at times fails to transform certain melodies into real anthems, and fight against the monolithic side that’s in the group’s nature as a “mere” duo of bass and drums.Back to the Water Below is hardly lacking in more mainstream songs, as the two companions don't hold back from trying to give a little bit of The Beatles on songs like “There Goes My Cool,” which, like a number of the other tracks on the album, features a piano discreetly placed in the background. It goes to show it sometimes takes just a few more musicians to fill out a track. Doubling back to a sound that’s a bit more rock, Royal Blood nevertheless try to change things up, turning toward different sources of inspiration. Perhaps the real transition album is actually this one and not Typhoons, which, all of a sudden, seems more like a parenthesis. © Chief Brody/Qobuz
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EELS So Good: Essential EELS Vol. 2 (2007-2020)

Eels

Alternative & Indie - Released December 15, 2023 | E Works Records

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Typhoons

Royal Blood

Rock - Released April 30, 2021 | Warner Records

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The third album from Royal Blood, Typhoons, unites the rock core of previous releases with new elements, including a dance-rock turn, and even hints of disco on some tracks. The Independent praised the album, comparing Royal Blood to Daft Punk! Oblivion is a fine example of this new direction, with a spartan, synthetic rhythm that manages to be both oppressive and danceable at the same time. This feeling permeates the 11 tracks that make up the album. Limbo is a relentless dancefloor beast, with a feverish disco bent. But it's on Boilermaker that producer Josh Homme really makes his presence felt. On this track we find all the ingredients responsible for the searing flavour of Homme's Queens of the Stone Age. Typhoons is a record that is just bursting with pleasure. This might reflect the glee that Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher feel in wrong-footing everyone who had pigeonholed them into a particular style. After a spin on the disco ball, the duo finish with a rather subdued All We Have Is Now, a piano ballad which urges us to follow the band in truly appreciating the present before it runs through our fingers. The present moment is, after all, for better or worse, all that we have left when the typhoons have passed us by. © Yan Céh/Qobuz
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How Did We Get So Dark?

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released June 16, 2017 | Warner Records

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It is well known - two heads are better than one. The Black Keys, the Kills, She & Him, and White Stripes and a few others know it's true. In 2014, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher also acknowledged this fact with a first album, titled with the name of their double act: Royal Blood. With bass and drums, the two Englishmen unleashed a tsunami of rock'n'roll based on such august influences as Led Zeppelin, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, T-Rex and... the White Stripes. With How Did We Get So Dark?, Kerr et Thatcher have proved that they've got enough magic potion left for a second glass. With their minimalist approach to hardware, Royal Blood don't seem content to throw simple uppercuts, preferring to write real songs. That is the strength of a double-act that remain obsessed with the legacy of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant… © CM/Qobuz
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Honeybrains

Royal Blood

Rock - Released March 17, 2022 | Warner Records

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Royal Blood

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released August 22, 2014 | Warner Records

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Mountains At Midnight

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released May 25, 2023 | Warner Records

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Pull Me Through

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released July 13, 2023 | Warner Records

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Live From The Royal Albert Hall... Y'All!

Black Stone Cherry

Rock - Released June 24, 2022 | Mascot Records

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All We Have Is Now / Limbo (Orchestral Versions)

Royal Blood

Rock - Released November 19, 2021 | Warner Records UK

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Back To The Water Below

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released September 8, 2023 | Warner Records

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Four albums into their evolution and it's still a wonder that so much noise is generated by just two people. Back to the Water Below follows 2021's slickly produced Josh Homme outing, Typhoons, and finds Royal Blood in fine form, once again nailing that sweet spot between the swaggering sleaze of Homme's band Queens of the Stone Age and the fuzzed-out alternative of acts like Muse and Arctic Monkeys. Sticking to an in-house approach this time around, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher produced the album themselves, plucking the best from their varied influences and resulting in their most dynamic effort to date. On the heavy side, the towering "Mountains at Midnight" pummels and quakes, setting off a shockwave that rumbles through the strutting, blues-washed "Shiner in the Dark" and the effects-laden "Tell Me When It's Too Late," a head-swirling highlight that's both trippy and visceral. The biggest surprises on the album come in the form of midtempo breathers that echo Radiohead ("Pull Me Through," "The Firing Line"), employing piano, atmospheric effects, and unfolding sonics that hint at a wider universe for the duo. They even lean into stadium-sized glam on the piano-backed gem "There Goes My Cool" and the epic closer "Waves." For fans in search of variations on their typical approach, Back to the Water Below offers more than they've ever attempted before, shifting and slithering from extremes without sounding like ten copies of the same track. It's a welcome change of pace that finally finds them in growth mode, hinting at much more to come.© Neil Z. Yeung /TiVo
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Black Royal Spiritism – I – O Sino da Igreja

Ruim

Metal - Released May 26, 2023 | Peaceville Records Ltd

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How Did We Get So Dark?

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released June 16, 2017 | Warner Records

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It is well known - two heads are better than one. The Black Keys, the Kills, She & Him, and White Stripes and a few others know it's true. In 2014, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher also acknowledged this fact with a first album, titled with the name of their double act: Royal Blood. With bass and drums, the two Englishmen unleashed a tsunami of rock'n'roll based on such august influences as Led Zeppelin, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, T-Rex and... the White Stripes. With How Did We Get So Dark?, Kerr et Thatcher have proved that they've got enough magic potion left for a second glass. With their minimalist approach to hardware, Royal Blood don't seem content to throw simple uppercuts, preferring to write real songs. That is the strength of a double-act that remain obsessed with the legacy of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant… © CM/Qobuz
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Royal Blood

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released August 18, 2014 | Warner Records

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The Union of Crowns

Bury Tomorrow

Rock - Released May 15, 2012 | Nuclear Blast

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Bury Tomorrow's debut album came and went in 2009 with relatively little fanfare outside the band's native U.K., but after signing a new worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records, the Hampshire-based quintet appears poised to make a much bigger impression in 2012 with its sophomore effort, The Union of Crowns. While so many contemporary metalcore bands suffer from serious schizophrenia, flitting desperately from polar extremes of dark and light, fury and serenity, and generally falling about as though any sign of an even-keeled disposition would alienate them from their ADD-afflicted target audience, Bury Tomorrow stealthily emerge from the bottom of the pile with much more cohesive and satisfying songs. That's not to say these neglect the more violent end of the sonic spectrum: in fact, vast swathes of "The Maiden," "Royal Blood," "Kingdom," and others indulge in copious gruesome growls, jackhammer guitar work, and machine-like drum tattoos worthy of the toughest metalcore merchants out there -- it's just that all this aggression always meshes judiciously with melodic counterpoints to maximum effectiveness. Think of it as a partnership of opposites, not a conflict, and it's honestly hard to think of a band since Killswitch Engage that's successfully balanced the two facets this fluidly (and that includes the frequent incremental synthesizer parts and piano intro for "1603"). To that end, the simply outstanding "Lionheart" comes out king of the castle, weaving dexterously performed layered guitar harmonies that elevate every surrounding feature to impressive heights, followed closely by secondary highlights such as "Knight Life" and "Vacant Throne." Finally, when was the last time you saw a metalcore band choosing to write about medieval politics instead of sniffing about post-emo failed teenage relationships? Bottom line: Bury Tomorrow stake a helluva claim for the melodic metalcore scepter with The Union of Crowns. © Eduardo Rivadavia /TiVo
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Limbo

Royal Blood

Rock - Released May 28, 2021 | Warner Records

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Johnny Cash and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Johnny Cash

Country - Released November 13, 2020 | Legacy Recordings

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Trouble’s Coming

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released September 24, 2020 | Warner Records

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Figure It Out

Royal Blood

Alternative & Indie - Released July 18, 2014 | Warner Records

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Boilermaker

Royal Blood

Rock - Released April 13, 2021 | Warner Records

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