Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Review

(Virgin)
Release Date: 04/03/2001 12:00

Hardly the Motörhead–Guns N’ Roses homage the album’s Wild One–derived name might lead you to expect, these brazen but laid-back San Franciscans instead recall the sneering ’60s-garage attitude of early Jesus & Mary Chain. The bump-and-grind stomper “Love Burns” and the dreamy “Spread Your Love” showcase smartly layered guitars and meaty production. Easy to hear why Oasis’s Noel Gallagher tried to ink them to a deal before Virgin trumped him: B.R.M.C. pack a Jane’s Addiction–style appeal that suggests this arty combo will deliver on the promise of the best of these moody songs. Always dark, sometimes lovely.

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