Royal Blood tease “instinctive” new material and “gimmick-free” arena tour

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recent surprise single ‘Honeybrains‘, Royal Blood have spoken to NME about how fans should expect more “instinctive” new music as they keep on writing through their current “gimmick-free” arena tour.The Brighton rock duo shared the first taster of new music since their dance-indebted 2021 album ‘Typhoons‘ last week, when they released ‘Honeybrains’ to celebrate the start of the new leg of live dates through the UK and Europe.Speaking to NME, frontman Mike Kerr revealed that the song came about quickly and was only first demoed a month ago.“I’ve been in living in New York and trying to get my teeth into new ideas,” said Kerr. “I’ve been writing ever since we finished our last UK show in Brighton [in September 2021].

We were really excited about the idea of what this could be, so wanted to try and get it done and turned around in time for the tour.”He continued: “I got back to Brighton, we went straight to the studio and it’s been a manic couple of weeks really because we’ve been recording, mixing, doing the video, doing the artwork.

It’s been fun. We don’t usually work in this kind of spontaneous way – but it’s been really exciting.”Having been so candid about how ‘Typhoons’ dealt with his mental health issues and journey to sobriety, Kerr admitted that he felt “less inclined” to discuss the inspiration behind ‘Honeybrains’ and other new songs in the works.“I don’t know if that’s for me to say any more,” he said. “I’ve spoken so much about my own lyrics, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m better off just letting other people decipher.

On the first albums, I never spoke about the words. I guess I really got into it on ‘Typhoons’ because I couldn’t really ignore what I’d been through and I wanted that to be heard.