“Trouble's Coming” by Royal Blood

"Trouble's Coming" opens Typhoons, Royal Blood's third album, and it arrived as the lead single in September 2020, the first taste of the follow-up to 2017's How Did We Get So Dark? Mike Kerr had gotten sober in early 2019, and he and drummer Ben Thatcher came back wanting a new sound, which meant letting dance music into the room. Kerr's bass still grinds, but the riff now struts where it used to bludgeon, and the whole thing moves like a hard-rock band that finally learned to dance.

The pair produced it themselves with extra production from Paul Epworth, Matty Green mixed it, and Kerr wrote the words, added keyboards and traded backing vocals with Bobbie Gordon. It went all the way to the top of the Canada Rock chart and reached number 8 in Scotland.

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