I honestly have been a fan of Royal Blood's for a long time and really dug their riffs and
swagger but this album erased basically everything I was a fan of about their sound. There's
much more piano and acoustic guitar, which is not something that I would have ever wanted
from a Royal Blood record. I don't come to Royal Blood for introspection and melancholy
instrumentation. I come here to rock out with some fun riffs and heavy distortion. There
isn't a lot of that here on this record, and when it is, something seems missing. It sounds
like the bass isn't as heavy or something. Overall, I was extremely disappointed in this
record. When they released Mountains at Midnight, I was pumped because that song was an
absolute Royal Blood banger, but basically everything that follows on this album is a mid-
tempo downer. That isn't to say it's a bad record in general, but I think it's a bad Royal
Blood record. They lost their swagger, their balls, their grit. |
