![]() Where their head-turning self-titled debut and 2017’s similarly successful follow-up How Did We Get So Dark? leaned on relatively familiar, grizzled blues rock tropes, Typhoons pushes a more colourful mix of buttons. You could imagine Queens Of The Stone Age and Muse cooking it up in a disco, with Chic and Daft Punk on the decks and (in the psych-infused Either You Want It) Tame Impala popping in for a dance and a spliff. Ultimately, it was Kerr’s lifestyle change that paved the way for the duo’s most danceable, most feelgood album yet, this year’s monstrously groovy Typhoons. “We were so in the moment and having a lot of fun with it all, it was just something that we knew was coming, and we knew he had to make some changes." “I think it was just needed,” Thatcher says simply, of Kerr’s decision to get sober. ![]() ![]() ![]() The propulsive beat-keeper of British rock’s most incendiary two-piece of the last decade, with a slew of hits to their name that were too heavy for radio – then got played on the radio. The anchor for Kerr’s off-the-wall, bass-that-sounds-like-a-guitar theatrics. It’s easy to see how Thatcher could be considered to be the rock of Royal Blood. He darts out and returns with a panting, tail-wagging armful of cuddly cockapoo. Her name’s Penny, I’ll get her for you if you want?” “I mean, I have a lovely car and a lovely house… and I have a dog. “I’m quite tame when it comes to all that stuff,” he says when asked about his extravagances since Royal Blood made it big. Immediately flouting a wealth of ‘silent drummer’ stereotypes, today he’s the warmer, chattier of the two. ![]() Ben Thatcher, Kerr’s permanently baseball-capped bandmate, is easier company. ![]()
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