Royal Blood have opened up about the experience of working with Queens Of The Stone Age‘s Josh Homme after the two joined forces on their third album ‘Typhoons’.
The Brighton duo, made up of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher, hailed Homme as an “inspiration” after securing his participation on new track ‘Boilermaker’.
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Speaking to Elton John on Apple Music, Mike Kerr said: “Before this whole idea began for the record, we’d been on tour with Josh for a long time and he became a really good friend of ours and he’s always been such an inspiration to us and a real hero.
“So it was an amazing moment to finally be together and he allowed us into his world. And I think it really set us up, because watching him in the studio just blew our minds. He’s so hands-on with everything.
“And I don’t think we’d ever seen someone be so creative with studio equipment before. And it woke something up in us, we realised that the studio, it doesn’t have to be this serious place, it can be.”
Homme’s collaboration with Royal Blood comes after he previously enlisted Kerr’s vocals on ‘Crucifire’, a 2019 track from his Desert Sessions side-project.
Last month saw Royal Blood share a new video for their recent single ‘Limbo’, the latest taste of the new record.
Royal Blood will release ‘Typhoons’ on April 30 via Warner. Prior to last week’s release of ‘Limbo’, the band shared the forthcoming album’s title track in January and its first single ‘Trouble’s Coming’ back in September.
Speaking to NME about ‘Typhoons’ back in January, frontman Mike Kerr said: “I think everyone can get lost in their own mind, and they can have dark spells in their own mind. I’ve experienced them, you’ve experienced them, we all have.
“I wanted to write a song that recognised them but was also uplifting and empowering – knowing that if you are going through that, it will end at some point. It will pass.”
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