“It ended up on the record because, ‘That’s really great.’ It doesn’t matter whether it aligns with what we’ve done before or what people say we’re allowed to do. Only at the very end do the music’s rigor and strut drop, when Kerr swaps his bass for a piano on the airy, psychedelic ballad “All We Have Is Now.” “Perhaps it points towards the unknown of where we’re going next,” he says. I felt amazing and so positive that I was in a much better place, yet the only thing I had to write about was incredibly dark. I felt a little less exposed: It almost felt like the lyrics were a bit disguised because the music was so upbeat and euphoric. It allowed me to trust myself with it rather than second-guessing anything. The concert, that one, had a bassist and a drummer on stage, embodied by Mike Kerr and Bem Thatcher. It was an easy record to get along, with Figure It Out, Little Monster or Out of the Black sticking to our mind. It went hand in hand with the band’s name, so it was easy to memorize: Royal Blood presentingRoyal Blood. “I got to the point where I really understood who I was, and having that kind of genuine confidence is crucial for being creative. At the time the first album had come out. “It was the only thing I had to write about,” he says. And like all the best disco, Typhoons bears plenty of emotional weight, with the songs unflinchingly tracing Kerr’s turbulent path towards sobriety. It’s a limber, swaggering sound they’ve nicknamed “AC Disco”-but factor in the big pop melodies on “Million and One” and “Trouble’s Coming” and you could also call it Black ABBAth. Across two previous albums-double-platinum debut Royal Blood in 2014 and follow-up How Did We Get So Dark? in 2017- the duo minted ferocious, divergent rock from just drums, bass, and effects pedals.Įven more free-spirited, Typhoons retools their sound for the dance floor, marshaling riffs to four-to-the-floor beats. That mantra got drilled into us and we’ve carried that into the rest of this record.” Both developments resonate through Typhoons.
I think he says, ‘What if?’ more than anyone I’ve ever met. He is very good at creating an environment where you feel comfortable putting forward an idea no matter how crazy it might be.
“There’s a lot of wigs, a lot of fancy dress,” says Kerr about Pink Duck. Secondly, Homme encouraged Kerr and Thatcher to worry less about perfection and explore the untapped possibilities for their music. I can’t expect things to get any better if I don’t really take responsibility for this.’” I had a very clear moment of ‘Something’s got to change. I could see I was bored of my complaints about myself. And I could hear the same old monologue going on. I was like Ron Burgundy at the bar, washed up. “I was at a real crescendo,” he tells Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson. On a weekend break from recording, he headed to Vegas. The sessions produced “Boilermaker,” a track from the Sussex rock duo’s third album Typhoons, but it was also a trip that generated two important changes for singer/bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher. The concert was small, with 45 minutes of pure rock n’roll, reminiscent of tremendous bands like Foo Fighters, Muse, or Queens of the Stone Age to the fore.In January 2019, Royal Blood traveled to LA to record with Josh Homme at the Queens of the Stone Age frontman’s Pink Duck studio. The symbiosis was perfect – with an atmosphere bordering on perfection. It went hand in hand with the band’s name, so it was easy to memorize: Royal Blood presenting… Royal Blood. And on first listen, we got the same notion that it could explode – and that it didn’t even make sense to play in a venue, in Lisbon, that is now a restaurant (TMN ao Vivo, Armazém F, in Cais do Sodré).ĭue to the great demand, the concert ended up being postponed to 2015 and transferred to the most incredible venue in the Portuguese capital: the Coliseu de Lisboa.Īt the time the first album had come out. If we were told in 2014 that a small band from Brighton were going to be giants, we probably doubted as much. But we are even happier to share with you this little taste and that X, Y, Z band that will make your day and eventually mark a generation. That band we vibed with fifty, a hundred other people in a small room? Now they play to thousands, and we? We’re there, proud to have met them before everyone else. If there’s one thing we love in our team, it’s seeing personal bets flourish.
0 kommentar(er)
