That crashing with the upbeat, euphoric music, I think it's a marriage that works really well." As he came out the other side, he had a lot of things to write about. It was a big life change for Mike in the process of this record. "The lyrics are all so personal and so revealing," Thatcher remarks. I had to relearn life from scratch."Ī little over half a year after cleaning up his act, "A great sense of clarity descended on me,” Kerr said, “and, suddenly, these songs were coming out of nowhere. There were a lot of pieces to pick up and a lot of reflecting to do. Addiction starts with feelings and it ends with feelings. It took a long time, looking back, to find familiarity. "Honestly, I didn't really know what was on the other side," he adds. In an effort to stop "letting chaos into my life," he, with Thatcher's support, made the decision to become completely clean and sober. It was pretty consistent and it just got more and more intense." "The first extreme being living that party lifestyle and doing that for eight years on the road without letting up at all. "I went from one extreme to the other, really," Kerr admits to. Regardless, Kerr feels he couldn't have had the wherewithal to co-create Typhoons if he hadn't given up drugs and alcohol beforehand. Everyone's relationship to sobriety is different, and Royal Blood offer no prescriptions for anyone's lifestyle.
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