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Royal Blood Answer Their Critics

08/12/2014
. (TeamRock Radio) Royal Blood duo Ben Thatcher and Mike Kerr say they're fed-up with people trying to pigeonhole their music and are quite happy doing their own thing.

The pair, drummer Thatcher and singer/bassist Kerr, say they've spent too much time being compared to other artists and it quickly became a chore. "Being a new band, you spend half your time just defending yourself against comparisons," Kerr tells Drowned In Sound. "I feel sorry for the next band that's going to get the question about Royal Blood and go, 'Obviously, we sound a bit like them, you know�' and it's just going to go on and on.

"When Led Zeppelin started, all they got was 'You sound like Black Sabbath'. You look back at that now and it's a f***ing joke. How did that even happen?"

The pair release their self-titled debut album on August 25 and go on the road with Pixies across North America next month, and they hit back at some who say their sound is unoriginal.

"The bass and drum thing isn't new and neither is using more than one amp," says Kerr. "But even with people I look up to, Jack White or Josh Homme, their sounds and a big portion of what they do is borrowed. But they put their own stamp on it and that's what makes it a good idea. That's something I still aspire to be able to do. Every day I'm figuring out new ways of expanding it and it's still developing. There's only two of us and we're trying to sound like there are four." More.

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