


“Then, everything else kind of fits in from there.” “It’s anything goes up until the moment we feel like we’ve captured something brilliant and then roll with that,” he said. Does “Honeybrains” provide a glimpse of what that might sound like? Not so fast, Thatcher said. “We always have writing on our mind, but it’s very hard to do that when we’re on the road, as we like to live in the now,” Thatcher said.īy living in the now, Thatcher wants to enjoy bringing Typhoons to life while, at the same time, diving further into the next record. This meant the duo had to re-arrange the songs to play them live. While Typhoons is a year old, it’s not only fans who haven’t yet experienced it live Royal Blood hasn’t, either. “Some time we hit the studio with four songs, sometimes with one, and all the songs come from different places, so we haven’t found one method that we stick to,” he said. The pandemic didn’t really change the way the band recorded, he said, because it was always a varied process to begin with. Normally, we’d be writing for an album campaign and the songs would be years old, but this one is fresh and it felt right to put it out right away.” “It was kind of how we used to do things. “We wrote it, recorded it, and did a video in such a short time,” Thatcher said. They released a new single, the first song from that next album, just before getting back on the road. Now Thatcher and Kerr are both touring 2021 album Typhoons and working in their follow-up album. “It wasn’t the easiest start we’re just reminded that the world still isn’t quite right.” Thatcher said he was frustrated by the uneven start but ultimately relieved that the Royal Blood team was able to reschedule just about all of the shows.įor several years, Royal Blood has delivered electric performances that have captured an audience across the globe. “We built the band to play live, so getting back to our natural habitat was nice and a good feeling,” Thatcher said.
