That’s when I was like, “I’ve never even played to more than 500 people. we were on pretty early, and I just looked around the corner and the tent was like, 12,000 people or something. I can get incredibly nervous, so there’s a few: both times at Glastonbury. Typhoons arrives 30 April via Warner Records.'Turkey legs with Daniel Bedingfield': Read our surreal interview with Royal Blood here.I don’t like to use the words stage fright, because I'm so excited to play in front of new people. Royal Blood have never claimed to be innovators, yet in expanding their stylistic repertoire they gently step upon familiar ground whilst forging the sound of modern masters honing their craft to reinvigorate their genre. Fan favourite ‘Boilermaker’ trashes into life with an unrestrained gut-punching sound, but it's the record’s title track that provides a blueprint for their growth and maturity. Despite missing some of the grit that made their 2013 debut stratospheric, the duo has tipped the balance to create one of the most genuine works of British rock that we’ve seen in years. “It feels so good to be letting go” runs a line from ‘Mad Visions’ in Kerr’s lush falsetto, and that’s exactly what Royal Blood have done throughout Typhoons. Delivered in the type of vocoder that Daft Punk perfected throughout their discography, it’s a disorientating down-tempo track that is best understood as part of Typhoons’ broader whole. Elsewhere, the latter half of ‘Million and One’ luxuriates in the sounds, panaches, and production techniques of '80s electronica whilst indulging Kerr’s customary sultry lyricism. Sonically, it’s tracks like these that hallmark the kinetic energy between Kerr and Thatcher to give their sound a trajectory larger than life.

The gulf of the song is its booming chorus, wherein the backing riff reimagines their signature sound. Thundering on to the rest of the album, ‘Oblivion’ makes the two-piece sound massive. Quoted in NME as Kerr “ seeing in colour for the first time ”, the track is flavoured with punchy dancefloor-ready riffs and lively synth keys, juxtaposing deep themes within the slick groove.

This yin-yang pop-rock quality lies in Royal Blood’s hooks none more so than opening track and lead single ‘Trouble’s Coming’. Royal Blood to tour UK small venues this August

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