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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | BRMC

Taking My Bloody Valentine into 2002.
CD, Virgin

Tekst: Tijs Heesterbeek

Publicatiedatum: 21 december 2001

It wasn't a bad year for American rock'n'roll. The Strokes created a hype with their Velvet Underground-like r'n'r, and The White Stripes also got raving reviews with their minimal music. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club start from the same point, true rock'n'roll, but take a different route to gain attention with the big public. Already on the first song, 'Love Burns', it's clear that BRMC add a few more layers to their music, with acoustic guitars and heavily distorted guitars that hide in the background, only to come up - thereby creating a climax - at the end of the song. This tension, created by a wall of guitar distortions and the nasal voice of singer Peter Hayes, is similar to bands like The Jesus And Mary Chain and Primal Scream (e.g. the first song and 'Red Eyes And Tears'). But comparisons with another British band, The Verve, do not lie far away either. This is because of BRMC's tendency to write long and dreamy songs ('As Sure As The Sun' and 'Too Real', for instance). Real "American" rock songs are 'Spread Your Love' and the excellent first single 'Whatever Happened To My Rock'N'Roll (Punk Song)'. But still the songs are too long and too well-considered to file them under r'n'r right away. And this is maybe the band's strength in comparison to The White Stripes and The Strokes: While the former bands happily cite early American r'n'r, BRMC dare to ask the question what has happened to r'n'r and try to brighten it with other (British) influences. This gives us not an album that is in-your-face, but an album that gets in your head and nibbles on your brain and stays with you wherever you go. And that prolongs the expiration date on this album.

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