With Brighton rock duo Royal Blood hitting the road this summer, frontman Mike Kerr has been discussing new music from the pair, and how this current run of live shows is a welcome break from being in the studio. The musician tells NME that the band – completed by drummer Ben Thatcher – are “very much in the middle” of creating the follow-up to 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark?, but that progress has been going well. “A similar thing happened on the last record where we got to a point where we had some real breakthrough moments,” Mike says. “The standard has raised and we hit upon a couple of tunes that were better than anything we’d ever done before. It’s changed the temperature of the water a lot. We were like, ‘Oh shit, what if we had a whole record ...
