Artist – Album: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – B.R.M.C
Released: 3rd
April 2001
Sounds Like: Deep Purple meets Jesus & Mary Chain
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club scored a moderate indie rock hit
in the early 00’s with the brilliant ‘Spread Your Love’, a great big
dirty rocker that had it’s roots in 60’s psychedelic garage rock bands and the
heavier stuff released in the 70’s by the likes of Deep Purple. I remember it
being sung at school, I remember watching the video on MTV, and I was thrilled
when I found it on a compilation album that I had bought. But, since then,
B.R.M.C have kind of just drifted around.
Their albums are generally well received by critics and the
public alike, but it’s hard to find anyone outside of their actual fans that
could name a second song by them. Some of it may be due to an apparent lack of
direction by the band. Other head bangers from the first album include ‘Whatever
Happened to My Rock and Roll’ and ‘Love Burns’, but elsewhere
the album sounds influenced by The Jesus and Mary Chain and shoegaze, whilst
the closing couple of songs are gentle acoustic ballads. Everyone likes an
album that mixes it up a bit but here it feels a bit confused, and the shift in
tone from song 9 to 10 was baffling.
Later albums followed a gentler, almost gospel tinged feel,
and perhaps that’s where their hearts really lie. Who knows? All I’d say is
that this debut - good in parts, great even at times - still sounds like that
of a band who don’t quite know what they’re trying to achieve yet.
Albumaday... rating: 6/10
1. Love
Burns – 4:05
2. Red
Eyes and Tears – 4:00
3. Whatever
Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll (Punk Song) – 4:38
4. Awake
– 6:12
5. White
Palms – 4:55
6. As
Sure as the Sun – 5:52
7. Rifles
– 6:59
8. Too
Real – 4:55
9. Spread
Your Love – 3:45
10. Head
Up High – 5:35
11. Salvation
– 6:06
Listen to ‘Spread Your
Love’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abKjC7EX2Zs
Also released on the 3rd April:
1968: Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
|
Also released on the 3rd April:
2000: Doves – Lost Souls
|
No comments:
Post a Comment