How Did We Get So Dark? (studio album)
by Royal Blood
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How Did We Get So Dark? is ranked 2nd best out of 4 albums by Royal Blood on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Royal Blood is Royal Blood which is ranked number 929 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,864.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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75/100  | 10/29/2025 22:18 | luukvdschepop | | 75/100 |
60/100 | 10/12/2025 20:54 |  Superunknown | | 70/100 |
60/100 | 09/27/2025 21:48 | cicadelic | | 73/100 |
75/100 | 07/23/2025 21:52 | davidbalo | | 76/100 |
90/100 | 07/17/2025 03:01 | rfowler | | 85/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.1/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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A solid album continuing on the good work of their debut, without the same number of top class tracks. My favourites are Don't Tell, Hook Line Sinker, I Only Lie When I Love You and Hole In Your Heart.
teague 08/27/2021 17:40
Arctic Monkeys with balls. I've seen these guys and they tear down the house.
A bit less valuable with respect to the previous work, simply because they didn't change practically anything in their proposal. The album is however enjoyable, energic, still fresh, despite of all
I really like this album. On first listen, it was "Oh this is not as good as their first album", but on repeated listens I have really got into this album.
RoundTheBend 12/16/2017 21:46
Probably deserves more like a 75 rating, but I'm a sucker for riff rock and the fact it's just a bassist with an octave pedal is pretty damn cool too (as a bassist). Nothing amazing musically, but definitely a fun listen of catchy riffs.
a brilliant follow up - it couldve gone so south after such a glorious debut album
but it is excellent, consistant and addictive
i will be honest - i did not like it on the first listen but absolutely love it now
the title track is very "Supergrass" - but thats not a bad thing in this case
great stuff
I actually really like this new album just as much as I like the first one, but I think you have to keep listening to it over and over to really understand the potential of the record. This is definitely a new direction for the duo because they are introducing a newer, more innovative side to them as they combine both harder and softer songs into the album. It's definitely more poppy than their debut record rather than just kick in the face garage/blues rock. They really expand their sound with this one and I think if you keep listening to it every now and then, you will start to enjoy it as much as I do.
Graeme2 06/23/2017 18:49
Not sure about the radiohead comparison, the obvious one is qotsa. Think I liked it a little bit more than the first. Nice enough pop rock.
DeusExMackia 06/18/2017 15:40
The tricky second album for Royal Blood; they get it right a lot of the time here, but there's also plenty of iffy moments. It never quite gets anywhere, and feels more like a collection of material cut from their excellent debut.
There's still promise here though; their sound is more developed and the experimentations of their style are certainly intriguing (with many songs feeling more pop-esque and some apparently taking inspiration from Bends-era Radiohead structurally and vocally).
It just wasn't enough development for my taste, and the result was a record that lost its excitement soon after it began. It's good, but not really good enough to be considered a worthy follow-up.
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