Royal Blood Discuss Their New ‘AC/Disco’ Style Record

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Following the release of the bands new single ‘Typhoons’, Royal Blood have now disucussed what’s to come from their upcoming third album of the same name.

Joining Allison Hafendorf for the Spotify show Rock This, the duo revealed the affects the pandemic had on making the follow up to 2017’s ‘How Did We Get So Dark?’, revealing how the band had to pack up and go home once lockdown hit in the middle of recording.

“We ended up going home,” Mike Kerr says. ​”After about a week I guess it just became really boring really quickly and, because I don’t drink anymore, boredom arrives a lot quicker. I’m a big believer in boredom; I think is really, really important because I think for me, that’s where creativity comes from. And that’s kind of how I found music.”

The frontman went onto explain that his quarantine boredom led him to “pointlessly” work on new music.

“And as a result of kind of making music from that perspective, it was just a lot more carefree and I was just being a lot more vulnerable with my lyric writing” Mike adds. “And the rulebook was miles away. And suddenly these songs started forming and Ben came down and then we were like, ​‘Hang on a minute, these are really, really good.’ So by the time we were allowed to go back into the studio, we had like these three brand-new ideas that were just like, ​‘They’re all going to be singles.’”

“So from a kind of creative and musical standpoint, we had this whole experience of being forced to not being able to play live and being isolated has been really, really positive. And if anything, it’s just thrown us deeper and got us more involved in the kind of recording process. It’s been really, really good.”

Using the lead single ‘Trouble’s Coming’ as an indicator of what the album is like as a whole, Mike revealed that “It definitely isn’t like a cookie-cutter for the rest of the record, but it’s definitely informative in the sense that it’s the beginning of that concept, really, of what we were talking about, where Ben called it ​‘AC/Disco’ in the studio.”

Check out the full podcast down below:

‘Typhoons’ which sees the band return to their roots, will release on April 30th via Warner Records.
Here’s ‘Typhoons’ tracklist:

1. ‘Trouble’s Coming’
2. ‘Oblivion’
3. ‘Typhoons’
4. ‘Who Needs Friends’
5. ‘Million & One’
6. ‘Limbo’
7. ‘Either You Want It’
8. ‘Boilermaker’
9. ‘Mad Visions’
10. ‘Hold On’
11. ‘All We Have Is Now’

Here’s ‘Trouble’s Coming’: