Royal Blood has been covered a few times now by Tuned Up. Previously, Topher Parks recommended Royal Blood in a Relevant Discoveries post.
I found these guys while reading up on how to split a guitar signal into a bass and guitar cab, while pitch shifting the guitar into a bass sound.
These guys were a comment / link on a thread explaining on doing just that. However, where before I was looking for a guitar pitched into a bass, this’s a bass pitched into a guitar.
Their album just came out. It’s sold over 100,000 copies. Just had an episode of Later with Jools Holland air. Apparently the drummer of the Arctic Monkeys was seen with one of their shirts sometime in 2013. Apparently the singer of Royal Blood USED to perform with a different band in Australia.
[Edit: Here’s a picture of the lead singer with members of Muse]
They’re now based in the UK.
First I watched this video. (Amazing)
Then I watched their Jools Holland appearance. (Also amazing)
Then I started to listen to their album on Spotify. This is my third listen.
Comparing the studio to the live sound, you notice a difference. I love the live sound most. (I have a sense that whoever produced / mixed and/or mastered this disc might have had Muse in mind.)
These guys seem like they’re taking the underground garage rock sound and are refining it into something more mainstream. Which admittedly would have made me shriek in horror a couple years ago. But now, I get it. You want Jools Holland? You need to have “the sound.”
And 10,000 albums sold in under 4 weeks? That’s nothing to scoff at.
If I had never seen the live clips, I’d appreciate the recorded mixes more. But I’d also not be as intently fixated on this band either.
With that aside, there isn’t an overabundance of production. It’s the live sound, kinda, but I imaginable more listenable as say the engineers may imagine it to be.
Raging guitar, metronomic drumming, squealing vocals. Dark and bluesy themed lyrics.
The selling point is the combination mastery bass/drum setup and badass lead singing. Complex poetic lyrical structure and badass crunchy music. There’s alot there.
In the end, I found what I was looking for. Gear-heads looking to figure out their setup? Check the link below.
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https://basschat.co.uk/topic/223363-royal-blood/
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