The Knocks – Music

    The Knocks proceed their streak of dance floor-primed singles with “Sound the Alarm,” that includes Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and Royal & the Serpent of different hit “Overwhelmed.” 

     On the collaboration, The Knocks say, “We’re so honored and thrilled to be collaborating with such gifted artists. Each Rivers and Royal introduced a novel power and sound that complimented one another so nicely. With “Sound The Alarm,“ we needed to seize the sensation of letting go and the liberty that it gives. The manufacturing is rooted in digital music, however it was a enjoyable problem to seek out the steadiness between each of their musical kinds and ours and create one thing new that’s uniquely all of us.“ 

      “Sound The Alarm” follows The Knocks’ final singles “R U High” ft Australian breakthrough expertise Mallrat, “Bedroom Eyes,” a collaboration with worldwide electro-pop group Studio Killers of viral international hit “Jenny,” “All About You” that includes Different mainstays Foster The Folks, and “Bodies” with electro-pop band MUNA. The Knocks additionally labored with Foster The Folks on the Melody & Silence mixtape, launched in March of this yr, which received the eye of Stereogum, Below The Radar, NME, and extra.

      Moreover, “Fireworks,” a 2021 collaboration between The Knocks, Purple Disco Machine and Moss Kena, continues to develop globally with greater than 70 million streams to this point. The track additionally achieved High 20 international airplay chart placement and the #1 spot on APC charts in Italy and Germany.

     The prolific multi-platinum promoting NYC dance music luminaries The Knocks ship a carefree digital sound that attracts from soul, funk, disco, hip hop, home, and pop. Comprised of James Patterson and Ben Ruttner, the duo have been producing a dizzying array of danceable New York impressed music for a decade now, bringing their DJ units and reside performances all around the world alongside pop superstars akin to The 1975, Justin Bieber, and Ellie Goulding amongst others. 

     They’ve launched 2 full size albums [55, New York Narcotic], 5 EP’s, and carried out their hit singles ‘Journey or Die’, ‘Greatest Buddy’, and ‘Our bodies’ on US late night time TV reveals together with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers. The Knocks’ “Journey or Die” and “All About You,” each that includes Foster the Folks, reached #11 and #14 respectively on the US alt radio chart. As well as, their collaboration with Sofi Tukker “Greatest Buddy” has amassed greater than 200 million streams throughout platforms to this point. Identified for his or her collaborative prowess, The Knocks have labored with artists throughout the musical spectrum, starting from indie [Foster The People, MGMT, Will Butler of Arcade Fire], hiphop [Cam’ron, Big Boi, Method Man], dance [Purple Disco Machine, Mat Zo, Sofi Tukker], and pop [Carly Rae Jepsen, MNEK, Charli XCX]. They’re at present within the studio producing their third album.  

      Los Angeles-based Royal & the Serpent made her debut in 2017, incomes popularity of a sequence of self-released singles akin to “MMXX,” “Salvador Dali,” and “Unhealthy Unhealthy Blood”, which was featured within the Season 6 trailer for ABC’s How To Get Away With Homicide. She made her Atlantic Information debut in 2020 with “Overwhelmed,” which spent 22 weeks on Billboard’s Different Airplay chart. In every bit of music she shares with the world, Royal reveals the wild duality on the coronary heart of her artistry and speaks to the unbelievable energy of embracing your true nature, in all its outrageous complexity. A Gemini to the core, she’s passionate however pensive, delicate however self-possessed, enigmatic however an open ebook in terms of exposing what’s inside her thoughts. “I positively really feel like I’m two folks residing in a single physique, the place I can simply slip on the drop of dime and turn out to be a very totally different individual,” notes Santiago, who equally identifies as a “candy sunshine angel” (i.e., the Royal persona) and a “freaky satan maniac” (the Serpent).