Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Take Them On, On Your Own
here we have the kind of band whose name describes just the way it sounds: dark, bad ash, in your face, noisy and fresh.
these guys sound very british, kinda like a combination between The Rolling Stones and The Jesus And Mary Chain, combining bluesy licks and street-smart attitude with fuzzed-out guitar and bass figures and some pretty catchy vocal hooks... yet, they manage to not sound outdated or hockey, neither do they sound like copies of the bands that have clearly influenced them. they've manged to succeed and develop where bands like Oasis just got stuck and couldn't contribute much more: they've taken elements of old and morphed them into something wholy new.
this is the kind of album you want to listen while on a road trip to who-knows-where. Each track has its own atmosphere and mood, yet, by listening to the whole album you find consistency and continuity. This is a band that has managed to come up with their own unique sound.
BRMC also have enough guts to roll off the high levels of bad assness and actually slow down their set to a more melancholy mood on songs like Shades Of Blue... nevertheless, not loosing the whole rebelious stance.
groovy music, memorable songs, well thought arrengements and like said before lots of attitude, they might not be as though as their namesake (Marlon Brando's gang from the movie The Wild One) but they sure pull it off on this album
Weapons of Choice: Stop, Generation, In Like The Rose, US Goverment
