Royal Blood - Self-titled (Record Review)

Winning Best UK Band at the Brit Awards this year with only one record out so far? Deserved or not?

This record is exploding with glimpses of influences from other bands. There's some Muse in it, even a little Manson at some point, Spiritual Beggars pop up in my mind and it is obviously dripping with endless QOTSA reminders, which everybody will probably agree with. Sometimes a little too much resemblance ... while it's great to take inspiration from other bands, sounding too much like them drowns your own approach to this art and will make it harder to really set foot and print a mark into the industry. Nevertheless, let's try to leave that out for now and concentrate on what they created.

From the first note on, the mood is set perfectly, though I did think for a while that my computer was having a stroke. The whole thing has such an intense groove and general ... almost, seducing effect, throughout the record I keep wondering why the hell there's no stripper in the package coming with that album. Cause it should.
You Can Be So Cruel and Blood Hands fly past quite unnoticed, sadly, but I might get more into it with a few more listens. But Little Monsters has me all up and dancing in my undies again.

Favorite song (by fucking far): Ten Tonne Skeleton

Overall: 6/10 (half an hour is just too short with so few songs ... definite minus for that)

Cheerio xx