Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
jamie on August 24th, 2005
Rhapsody seems to be a bit behind with new releases, so it’s a New Music Wednesday today….
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC from here on out) are a raunchy, rockin’ band from San Francisco that do the whole brit-rocker thing better than some brit-rockers…except this album isn’t very raunchy, or rockin’, or brit-rock even. It’s more acoustic blues and shuffle, and brooding. And in that, it’s cool. Diversity is awesome, expecially when everybody wants to sound like whomever seems to be most popular at the moment. Breaking from this can be contrived sometimes though- trying to be different just to be different (most experimental or “art” rock bands fall into this deplorable category). BRMC, however, manage to change gears and show that this is just another side to an already accomplish outfit. While it probably won’t please die-hard fans of their earlier work, this is a solid album, full of well-written songs. It’s only a diversion of styles for the band. So, if you’re tired of Coldplay, Colplay wannabes and Blink182 copycat number 300, give Howl a listen- the change of pace will do you good.
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