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Track Listings
| 1. Shuffle Your Feet |
| 2. Howl |
| 3. Devil's Waitin' |
| 4. Ain't No Easy Way |
| 5. Still Suspicion Holds You Tight |
| 6. Fault Line |
| 7. Promise |
| 8. Weight Of The World |
| 9. Restless Sinner |
| 10. Gospel Song |
| 11. Complicated Situation |
| 12. Sympathetic Noose |
| 13. The Line |
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With a name like Howl, you’d expect the third album from San Francisco’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to be their ugliest, heaviest statement yet. Think again. Kicking off with the spontaneous acoustic blues stomp of "Shuffle Your Feet", Howl starts as it means to go on: mellow, stoned, and sounding more authentically down-home than any band of sociopathic, narcosis-twisted punks have sounded since Primal Scream holed up in Memphis to write 1994’s Give Out But Don’t Give Up.
"Still Suspicion Holds You Tight" and "Fault Line" crib from early Dylan, rolling drawled vocals, finger-picked guitar and blasts of harmonica into brittle sneers of malcontent, while the sleepy "Promise" offers up a spaced-out, Spiritualized-style ballad embellished with sweet piano and sleepy brass. Meanwhile, as the titles might suggest, "Restless Sinner" and "Gospel Song" reach back still further into the annals of traditional Americana. What happened to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s rock’n’roll? They haven’t lost it altogether, but on Howl they’ve consciously devolved their sound, and this stripped, mostly enjoyable blues record is testament to the virtue of taking a leaf out of the old rulebook – Louis Pattison
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been, and Nick Jago. This is the first album for the Echo Label following their departure from Virgin Records. Howl features brand new single "Ain't No Easy Way'" which is more country-rock than some of their previous material yet just as rocking.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I don't buy a lot of recent stuff and I am pretty careful when I do. Once in a while I pick up a phenomenal album and I have to say that the eclectic mix of styles on this album has breadth and depth rarely heard in much chart music. On "Shuffle Your Feet" can you hear Magic Bus by The Who but isn't the style otherwise so familiar? Howl is no mean track but the next two tracks seem very southern states until "Ain't No Easy Way" remodels Led Zeppelin's Fourth Album style brilliantly. Then "Promise" mirrors Beatles in some form. Elvis appears in "Gospel Song", Dylan in "Complicated Situation" and the album finishes without a weak track. This is a piece of work which many aspiring contemporary bands don't every get close to. In comparison to their previous albums this is an unusual change of path that delivers and entertains without disappointment.Where will they go next? Buy it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you've read any of my reviews on amazon before, you'll know that I don't throw my five star reviews around to anything short of a classic. And this certainly is a classic.
I've got to say that this album completely blindsided me. Their first two albums were uninspiring to me, really, although both had a handful of brilliant songs, I wasn't a big enough fan to buy them for myself. However, having heard a snatch of lead single 'Ain't No Easy Way,' I bought this record on a whim. I've never been so happy to be this surprised.
Howl is a truly brilliant record, one that should, by rights, have blown its competition out of the water. Almost entirely acoustic, the songs here are scarcely produced and sparsely arranged, and have to stand up purely on their own strengh. Four of the songs are Dylanesque solo numbers, recorded hunched over a sole mirophone with just a guitar for company. They are astonishing.
Outside of that, is the bar-room rocker of the aforementioned 'Ain't No Easy Way,' the dreamlike, woozy title track and the slow-burning closer 'The Line' to contend with. Just about every song here is worth listening to. Only 'The Promise' feels a little syrupy, but it still lasts repeated listens, even if you just skip it once in a while.
I can't say enough good things about this album. A complete about face for this black-clad band, this is the best album you could have bought last year, or even this year.
I've got to say that this album completely blindsided me. Their first two albums were uninspiring to me, really, although both had a handful of brilliant songs, I wasn't a big enough fan to buy them for myself. However, having heard a snatch of lead single 'Ain't No Easy Way,' I bought this record on a whim. I've never been so happy to be this surprised.
Howl is a truly brilliant record, one that should, by rights, have blown its competition out of the water. Almost entirely acoustic, the songs here are scarcely produced and sparsely arranged, and have to stand up purely on their own strengh. Four of the songs are Dylanesque solo numbers, recorded hunched over a sole mirophone with just a guitar for company. They are astonishing.
Outside of that, is the bar-room rocker of the aforementioned 'Ain't No Easy Way,' the dreamlike, woozy title track and the slow-burning closer 'The Line' to contend with. Just about every song here is worth listening to. Only 'The Promise' feels a little syrupy, but it still lasts repeated listens, even if you just skip it once in a while.
I can't say enough good things about this album. A complete about face for this black-clad band, this is the best album you could have bought last year, or even this year.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I heard Aint No Easy Way on the radio a few weeks ago and pre-ordered the album as soon as I could. It arrived on its release date (Monday) and it hasnt been out of the cd player yet (Wednesday).
What is definitely isnt is another BRMC cd. Theres no grunge, no dirty dark blues rock here, just beautiful, clean blues/rock/folk. Dont get me wrong, i love BRMC, Spread Your Love is a favourite, but while there are some Rifles on here, this album is neither. Its Dylanesque, its chain-gang America, its still bluesy with country undertones. Sounds like a fine wine - it is.
There may not be anything here that hasnt already been tried before, but BRMC have succeeded in creating a record with a fresh modern take on some old classic styles.
I bought the Limited Edition which has a book like cover. Like the music within, it is clean, simple, classy and understated.
For me, this is the record of the year.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Pure, Simple, Brilliant.
BRMC's third album was a brave & significant departure from its predecessors, finding the band digging deep into a rich seam of acoustic-based Americana which confounded a great... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Harvey Randall
Unexpected.
I bought this album on the strength of one track and I'm so glad I did, I love it.
There's a wonderful eclectic mix of music here, well worth listening to!
There's a wonderful eclectic mix of music here, well worth listening to!
Published 11 months ago by trisha
Simply the best album I've ever heard
This is the first review I've written and may well be my last. However, the quality of this album has forced me to say something about it. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Paul W
Pleasantly different
Many people have likened this album to Bob Dylan. I would agree, but leaving enough room to say it is also a completely different beast in every way. Read more
Published on 30 May 2009 by Camelchild
A change of pace
'Howl' is the exception to the hard-rock rule in BRMC's discography. The raw, distorted guitars of their eponymous debut and Take Them On, On Your Own, are abandoned in favour of... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2007 by Simon Doherty
Underwhelmed
After seeing BRMC on Jonathon Ross one night and then again on VH2 I bought "Take them on on your own". I was absolutley blown away by it. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2007 by DazzlerT
Greatest album since The Joshua Tree
I have played this to some people who really know their music and have listened to everything for the last 30 years, and they are a tough crowd to please... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2006 by Mr. P. J. Hannington
Their best yet
The first album was great, the second album was a bit disappointing, but this, their third, is the best of them all. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2006 by The Boy
Like cheese,this album will mature & grow stronger with time
I enjoyed the previous two albums of the BRMC, loved the song Take Them on Your Own which makes me walk with a straight back whenever I listen to it on my walkman (instead of my... Read more
Published on 7 April 2006 by Harry Pitter
Good ol Boys
I was a big fan of BRMCs first album, despite it being a bit of a Jesus and Mary Chain rip-off, but the second album did little to suggest that they were going to be anything else... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2006 by J. S. Meins
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