
Royal Blood, a two-man wrecking crew of a band from England, released their fourth album Back To The Water Below on Friday. The album comes about two years after 2021’s Typhoons, which was the album where the band started to expand on their sound, bringing more to the table beyond the thundering bass & drum soaring rumbling of their first two albums. We are pro-growth here at Giddy Up America and we are very much pro-Royal Blood and would gladly argue with anyone that a band like Royal Blood and not Greta Van Fleet is the future of rock ‘n roll.
Based on the singles released in the weeks leading up to the release of Back To The Water Below, the band is still thumping and grinding. They’re down and dirty at times and high and soaring at times. Yet the new songs hint at maturation in the band’s songwriting as well as a development of their sound. There is also the inevitable thing that always happens with two-person bands- the addition of other instruments. Ask The Black Keys, the White Stripes, and others. The minimalist thing is great but it has a shelf life. Eventually, new tools are going to be added to the tool box.
Again, Giddy Up America is pro-growth, so we’re good here, Royal Blood.
Royal Blood is one of those bands whose music makes me want to do things when I listen to them. Yes, things. Specifically, Royal Blood’s music makes me want to do things I might not be capable of or under normal circumstances, flat-out unwilling to do. Their music gets my motor running, my gusto gusto’d, my up riled, my juices flowing.
With that being said, here is a list of things the music of Royal Blood makes me want to do, listed in no particular order.
Optional musical accompaniment can be found HERE.
Stuff with Cars:
- Get in a high-speed car chase
- Go speeding towards a bridge in the middle of it being drawn and jump that son of a bitch (think this, but cooler)
- Do donuts, but filmed in slow-motion
- Go flying over a hill in San Francisco at full speed
- Drive over something in a large truck
- Flip over in a car, the car lands upside down, I get out unscathed and as I walk away, the car burst into flames, but don’t worry I’m fine
- Speed away from a building as it explodes
Stuff Involving Alcohol:
- Get in a bar fight
- Get in a MASSIVE bar fight
- Throw someone through the front window of a dive bar
- Toss someone over a bar
- Do that thing where you drag someone down the top of a bar, knocking over bottles and glasses as you go
- Round-house kick someone
- Play a Royal Blood song on a small stage in a dingy ass dive bar where the audience is two feet from the singer’s face
- Do shots of Yager
- Regret doing shots of Yager
- Do more shots of Yager
- Shoot pool…but like significantly better than I actually shoot pool
- Hustle someone with my pool-playing ability (which in this fictional scenario is better than in real life)
- Be called out for hustling someone, then smash a bottle over their head and say something cool like, hate to break it to you, buddy, but you’ve been gotten got (Actually, ideally I might say something cooler than that)
Action Stuff:
- Run off a cliff and jump into a helicopter that is waiting for me Tom Cruise style
- Jump off a cliff, fall 50 feet into a body of water…it’s cool, there are no rocks around
- Ride a dirt bike in a non-dirt bike-friendly setting
- Sky-dive without a parachute
- Jump from the roof of one super tall building to another super tall building
- Run away from a pissed-off lion
- Punch a bear in the face
- Eat a whole thing of Ben & Jerry’s
And You Know, Random Stuff:
- Blow a set of speakers listening to “Hook, Line & Sinker“
- Use a drill
- Use a sledgehammer
- Use a drill and a sledgehammer at the same time
- Spit a fireball
- Draw dragons
- Cut down a few trees
- Bake cookies
And you know, if I think about it, I could go on and on but this seems like a good start.
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