Royal Blood have hinted at "instinctive" new material

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23 Mar 2022, 17:25

Royal Blood surprised fans with their single 'Honeybrains'.

Now frontman Mike Kerr has hinted that more “instinctive” new music could be on the way.

He told NME that they plan to keep writing as they head out on the road for their “gimmick-free” arena tour.

The band released 'Honeybrains’ ahead of their impressive run of shows, and it turns out that the tune didn't take long at all to write.

Kerr said they only demoed the song a month ago.

He revealed: “I’ve been in living in New York and trying to get my teeth into new ideas."

“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.”

“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," he explained.

As for their new sound, he explained the song is “just who we are and a snapshot of right now".

"No thought went into this track – in the best possible way! I wasn’t writing for any reason. I wasn’t trying to write a single or the next Royal Blood song; I was just making music.”

It seems that writing the song has got the creative juices going for Kerr again: “I would like to just crack on with an album now, to be honest,” he said.

“We’ve missed out on a lot of touring so we have to go out on the road, but I’m just going to keep writing on the road and see where that takes me. I think that’s going to be exciting. I think ‘Honeybrains’ in particular is going to be very orientated around the live show.

“That’s where I want to go – I want to be testing things out on the road and being on the road?”