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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Howl
(Echo, 2005)
Amped-up americana from the dark alleys of San Francisco…
Having released two albums of grimy psych-rock, each delving into the furious heart of The Stooges and MC5 with varying degrees of success, black-clad miseries BRMC decided to leave the city and head into the mesa. It proved to be an inspired move. Burnt out by incessant touring and inter-band squabbling, Peter Hayes and Robert Turner (then without drummer Nick Jago) holed themselves up in a West Coast studio with an upright piano and a couple of acoustic guitars. From the Allen Ginsberg-inspired title to the horizon-chasing anthems found within, Howl breathes heavily under the weight of bottleneck blues, strident gospel keys and cosmic country soundscapes. It’s as if the band’s hypnotic drones were left to fester in a Georgia dust storm, then reassembled in a basement creaking to the sounds of Dylan and The Band. The fact that Turner decided to resurrect his birth name, the rather more crackerish Robert Levon Bean, during the album sessions testifies to the totality of the transformation.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 27/01/2008
Further Listening
My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves (ATO, 2003)
Micah P Hinson – …And The Gospel Of Progress (Sketchbook, 2004)
The Band – Music From Big Pink (Capitol, 1968)
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