Mike Kerr: “I think we probably mixed it and finished it days before the deadline. Here, they guide us through their triumphant 2017 album, track by track. “As soon as we put the chemistry of the band as the priority, that’s when the songs began to come to us.” Kerr and Thatcher put themselves through the wringer, but they got there in the end. “It’s almost like we had to remind ourselves who we were,” says Kerr. How Did We Get So Dark? cemented Royal Blood’s status as a new rock superpower. Their second record’s title might give some insight into Kerr and Thatcher’s warped mindset at the time-“I was in a pretty mad place,” says Kerr-but the songs here chart a thrilling evolution, expanding their drum-and-bass set-up with subtle flourishes of keyboards and Rhodes while retaining the epic minimalism of their debut.
Propelled by a breakthrough in the form of the gnarly rock groove of “Lights Out”, they found forward motion. “It became like a self-fulfilling prophecy,” recalls Kerr. It was awesome, but after every high, there’s a low.” “Daunting” is how Thatcher remembers it, and as people around them began to bandy about the phrase “difficult second album”, the duo struggled to generate momentum. “Suddenly, what we thought was a bit of fun, something our mates would hear, had become this traumatically amazing experience. “We were terrified,” Kerr tells Apple Music. The huge success of their self-titled debut in 2014 had thrust bassist and singer Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher into a world of rock stardom they hadn’t planned for, and now they had to follow it up. It took getting to the end of their second album to remind Royal Blood what they loved about being in a band.
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