Returning to tour ‘Typhoons’ after various COVID-related delays, Kerr described the new leg of arena dates as “long overdue”. (Photo by Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns) Royal Blood at the newly opened Swansea Arena on Main Swansea, Wales. “That’s where I want to go – I want to be testing things out on the road and being on the road?” I think ‘Honeybrains’ in particular is going to be very orientated around the live show. “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 would like to just crack on with an album now, to be honest,” he said. While unsure of when more new music would follow, Kerr did reveal that they had “a bunch of new stuff that feels really great”, adding that “‘Honeybrains’ is a sign of me saying, ‘Right, I feel like this is album four’.” We’re just going to keep going in this direction and see where it takes us. He went on: “What’s nice is that all of our other ‘new’ music is at least a year old, but I got the final mix back of this song last week, so it’s nice for our fans to be experiencing what we’re experiencing in real time. I wasn’t trying to write a single or the next Royal Blood song I was just making music.” No thought went into this track – in the best possible way! I wasn’t writing for any reason. Having just made that record, we felt the most free, secure and unlimited. “We always just follow what we’re feeling at the time. “Even with ‘Typhoons’, which was more of a departure than anything we’d done before, it’s never a designed or premeditated idea,” he told NME.

As for the sound of new music, Kerr described ‘Honeybrains’ as “just who we are and a snapshot of right now”, while also revealing that more “instinctive” music would follow.

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