ALBUM OF THE WEEK

TYPHOONS ROYAL BLOOD ★★★★✩

Royal Blood have undergone something of a radical transformation since the release of 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark? Put it down to the global pandemic, basswielding frontman Mike Kerr going sober or the influence of friend-cum-producer Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age. Whatever it was, it works.

The Brighton duo has shifted its heavy rock sound towards something redolent of the Bee Gees’ high camp, all while retaining the bite of Led Zeppelin.

Throw in huge, bustling synth lines that wouldn’t look out of place on a Daft Punk album and overprocessed drums that scream 80s melodrama and the formula is complete. This is 11 tracks of gorgeous, inventive rock and roll, dusted with handclaps and infectious choruses.