Mike Kerr: Some of it’s hazy, but what was happening for us was so monumental that it’s an era of our lives we’ll always have some grasp on. How clear are your memories of that time? Music Feeds: From putting out the Out of the Black EP to releasing your debut album and then touring non-stop for a couple of years, it was a pretty spectacular run. Music Feeds spoke to Kerr about the hurricane of hype that surrounded their first album, the difficulties they faced making album two, 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark?, and what led them to make a disco album. But Typhoons is still a riff-loaded rock record, and it even boasts a production credit from QOTSA’s Josh Homme. Kerr’s vocal performances also reveal more bald-faced pop ambitions than either of the band’s previous LPs. Kerr has no shame in calling it a disco record and the album’s high-energy assault is unceasing from track one through to ten.
Grooves are at the heart of Royal Blood’s latest album, Typhoons. He and Thatcher have always known how to make a room move, but their sound skews closer to the groove-centric party rock of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal than the blues-based songwriting of the White Stripes and Black Keys. For one thing, Royal Blood has no guitarist – Kerr’s primary instrument is the electric bass, which he runs through a load of distortion and associated effects pedals.
But as for those White Stripes and Black Keys comparisons, they never felt particularly accurate.
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