What You Need

What You Need is the ninth studio album by American Alternative Pop Rock band The New Romantic Devils, released on August 12, 2022, through One Sexy Devil Records. After touring to support their previous album, The Devil You Know, the band started to write and record new material with producer Tom O'Renn. They continued to write songs with a more radio-friendly sound, featuring tighter and shorter song structures compared with their earlier albums. This is the last studio album to feature Peyton Reed who retired and left the band after completing.
What You Need received a positive reception from contemporary and retrospective music critics and became an instant commercial success, 
 
What You Need
Studio album 	The New Romantic Devils
Released 	12 August 2022
Recorded 	May2- 3-May 27, 2022
June 24-July 16 2022
July 24-28 2022
Studio 	The Sandbox (Fort Worth, Texas) [Archie home studio]
Lake Worth Castle (Fort Worth, Texas)
White Oak Manor (Jefferson, Texas)
Genre 	Pop Alternative Rock
Label 	One Sexy Devil
Producer 	Tom O'Renn
Engineered and Mastered	Bob Zanka
Atom
 
== Contents ==
* 1Background and recording
* 3Artwork
* 6Track listing
* 7Personnel
* 8Charts
** 8.2Year-end charts
== Background and recording[edit] ==
In May 2022, the band ended their ten-month tour of the United States, and the United Kingdom in support of their seventh and eight studio albums, The Devil you Know and These Lonely Streets. During the tour's stop in New York City, the band agreed to start work on a new studio album, rather than prepare a live album from several recordings they made during the tour, partly because the ideas being developed at sound checks were sufficiently interesting to them to put on tape. Archie was exceptionally enthusiastic in doing a new album, and Hudson and Anziotti found themselves catching onto his enthusiasm. The trio pitched the idea to the rest of the band and their manager and producer was picked.
After a short break, they regrouped at Archie's home studio "The Sandbox" in Late May and June 2022. These sessions were over seen by longtime producer Freddy Spencer who was stretched thin with other projects he was working on. These ideas and demos were not scrapped but placed on hold while the band regrouped. The New Romantic Devils then moved to Lake worth Castle and set up a mobile studio to write and prepare material for their new album. The sessions were productive, with "I got what you need" the first song to be worked on, followed by "Across the Border", "Levitate", "You Got me running" and "Unsung Hero". Following the initial writing sessions, the band returned to the sandbox with their new producer Tom O'Renn and prepared demos of the songs. The band then rented time in White Oak Manor a reported haunted mansion to take a break. While there the band worked on the demos further and began to write more material. Including "Nobody like you" and Fast Life. 
With the material fully prepared, The band recorded What you need in June and July of 2022 at White Oak Manor. The studio had been recently fitted out with a digital 48-track machine, which was unfamiliar to the band and necessitated them spending time familiarizing themselves with the equipment. The band made a conscious effort to preserve the quality of their recordings as much as possible by transferring finished sections onto a fresh piece of tape and placing the original copy in storage, thereby reducing the damage to it from frequent playback. During the sessions, they experimented with a pressure zone microphone, a type of boundary microphone that picks up direct sound and no reverberated signals, The audio captured from it was used to pick up the ambience in the studio room in the final mix. The album is a return to the bands roots as well as continuing to experiment with sound and melody. Keith Hudson took a more prominent lead roll in the album for the first time since The Devils Got Your Tongue. Even though the album is contributed to the entire band in the writing process. Keith Hudsone and Archie Monroe are credited with the majority of the tracks as the primary writers/
== Artwork[edit] ==
The cover was designed by Charlie Simmons taking photos from Archie's home studio and combining with graphic artwork and band photo to create an art deco feel to the album cover.
== Track listing[edit] ==
All lyrics are written by Keith Hudson except "Nobody Like You", by R. Monroe and Ed Anziotti ; all music is composed by Archie Monroe and Rachel Monroe, except "Across the Border", by Monroe, Monroe and Hudson.
Side one
No.	Title 	Length
1. 	Let you Go/Fly Away 	5:00
2. 	I Got (What you Need)	5:03
3. 	Get Mine 	3:03
4. 	It's Official 	4:34
5 	Is it Love 	2:57
6 	Unsung Hero 	4:45
7 	Levitate 	5:16
8 	Across the Border 	5:14
Side two
No.	Title 	Length
9. 	The Hook 	3:58
10.	Nobody Like You 	4:09
11.	Fast Life 	5:18
12 	Kings 	4:09
13 	Wait for It 	5:39
14 	Lose My Love 	5:05
15 	You Got me Running on Empty	5:36
16 	Let's Go 	4:10
== Personnel[edit] ==
The New Romantic Devils
Archie Monroe- 6- and 12-string electric and acoustic guitars, Moog Taurus pedals Vocals
Keith Hudson- vocals, drums, timbales, gong, orchestra bells, glockenspiel, wind chimes, bell tree, crotales, cowbell, plywood
Rachel Monroe- Lead Vocals and Piano, and acoustic guitar
John Taylor Dubach- Bass, Rhythm guitar, drums and vocals
Ed Anziotti- Lead and Rhythm guitar
Peyton Reed- bass guitars, keyboards, bass pedals, vocals
Production
* Tom O'Renn – production, arrangements
* Bob Zanka – engineering
* Keith Hudson– assistant engineering
* Atom – mastering and remastering
* Charlie Simmons – art direction, graphics, cover concept
== Charts[edit] ==
=== Weekly charts[edit] ===
{| 	Chart (2022)	Peak
position
United State Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	1 	
Canadian Albums (Billboard) 	19 	
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 	46 	
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 	22 	
Japanese Albums (Oricon) 	41 	
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 	72 	
== Chart positions[edit] ==
== Certifications[edit] ==
Sales certifications 
Region 	Certification 	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) 	Platinum 	50,000^
Canada (Music Canada) 	Platinum 	100,000^
United States 	— 	16,425,000
United Kingdom (BPI) 	Silver 	60,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.	^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.	^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.