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The duo, who formed in 2011, were half-way
through recording their third album "Typhoons" when Britain went
into its first national lockdown in March 2020 and they had to
abandon the sessions.
But this hiatus turned out to be a good thing as they relocated
to a studio close to where they grew up in the southern English
city of Brighton and ended up writing more tracks.
"The world falling apart around you ... it gave us ... more
bravery ... to go even further into this concept of the album we
were making," frontman and bass player Mike Kerr told Reuters.
"Looking back, it was the best thing that could have really
happened to us."
Kerr said the album explores the idea of "being in a kind of
destructive cycle ...(a) seemingly infinite loop of bad
behaviour and self sabotage."
While the lyrics on tracks such as "Typhoons" and "Limbo" are
quite dark, the music isn't, he said.
"My theory is that because at the time it was so bleak and rainy
and cold and miserable, it's almost like we wanted to make music
that was the opposite of that."
"And also when we come back to playing these songs, we don't
want to be reminded of this time so much. We want to go out and
play these in massive venues and have a party and no one wants
to party about COVID," drummer Ben Thatcher added.
"Typhoons" was released in late April and topped the UK music
charts.
"Now we've got music out again, we just want to be on that stage
playing to our fans," Thatcher said.
Royal Blood are set to play some festivals in the summer and
have a UK arena tour starting in March 2022. Details for their
upcoming world tour are yet to be announced.
"It's weird. It doesn't seem real. The idea of being in front of
people, again, it's kind of alien," said Kerr.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills. Editing by Jane Merriman)
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