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Back To The Water Below

Royal Blood

About “Back To The Water Below”

Back To The Water Below is Royal Blood’s fourth studio album. With the release of the first single, “Mountains at Midnight,” the band released a statement that read, “We wanted to remind you who we are and what we do before we drag you down the rabbit hole with us.”

“Back To The Water Below” Q&A

  • What have the artists said about the album?

    Ben and I know each other so well, and this record was about being honest with each other. Self-producing it forced us to do things that came naturally to us. Sometimes having a producer, although with good intentions, pushes you to go to territories you wouldn’t normally go to. Obviously that can really serve for progression, but for us it’s also about doing something that is inherently what you would do.

    Whenever we do something really honest, it’s musically very powerful. That usually requires not thinking about it too much.

    Jack White once said that it took him 30 years to figure out that the first thing he plays in the studio is the thing. Deep down, I think that’s something I knew, but I really respected it this time around. We honoured our instincts and the first thing we played. Sometimes you play something from a really pure place and you spend months overthinking and wrecking it, or you eventually circle straight back to where you began. Not having a producer allowed us to be a little more forthright and bold.

    I met him very briefly about five years ago. He’s obviously an amazing character, and he said to me, ‘Royal Blood is whatever you invent and do together musically – the context doesn’t matter’. It’s just about the chemistry between us, not the instruments we play. When I think about it like that, it becomes something much more profound. At this stage it would be easier to think that we’ve been confined by what’s made us successful and there’s a rulebook that we have to adhere to. If we step outside of that, we’re disobeying what people like about us.

    As long as there’s a connection between Ben and I, the genre and the instruments we play are almost irrelevant. It’s about how we interact and how we make songs together. If we lose that, we’ve lost everything. It allowed us some creative freedom – which is how we felt on this record. We could take left turns.

    It feels like the songwriting is doing the heavy lifting and the songs are in charge. Before it felt like our riffs were holding the songs up. With the songs on this record, they’ve been road-tested on every other record.

    You have to follow where the songs want to go and where they need to be. A lot of the songs on this record went off into very different places. I wouldn’t have been able to pull that off before.

    That’s so hard to answer [about the over-arching character of the album] because it has so many personalities. I couldn’t put it as one thing. It feels like the first album where you really go on a journey with us. There’s a real narrative to it.

    —via NME

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