Royal & The Serpent has shared details of their long-awaited debut album and offered a fresh taste of what to expect from it.
The record is going to be titled ‘Emptiness Is Godly’ and will be unleashed on May 08 via Atlantic Records.
And the track that they have shared is called ‘Steering (So Fast)’, an intimate, obscure piece of stripped-back vulnerability. Beautifully modern yet effortlessly timeless, it peels back the layers, allowing Royal to speak from the heart in the most stark tones possible. Matched with sporadic blasts of hyped-up bass, it is a real to-and-fro of thoughts and feelings that showcases so much of what the project’s purpose has become.
Royal & The Serpent had this to say about how it was crafted:
“‘Steering (So Fast)’ was written between the hours of 1am and 4am on my living room floor. My boyfriend was fast asleep next to me. He’d been playing the chords before he drifted off. I snagged the guitar and didn’t put my pen down until I was proud. I got to finish it with one of my best friends and longest collaborators (Overwhelmed, Weddings & Funerals, Salvador Dali) – Marky Style. This song feels like home. She’s surprising and confronting and fearfully bold. She’s what wanting and yearning and chasing and failing feels like. I love her.”
It’s the third song to be pulled from the upcoming record, following up ‘Fiona’, which sounds like this:
And ‘Favorite Person’, which sounds like this:
