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Somewhere between the five full-length albums and a decade-long road test across the highways of the world, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club found their way.
Eleven years after bassist Robert Levon Been and guitarist Peter Hayes started playing gigs around their hometown of San Francisco, the duo has now started over with a new vision, a new drummer, and the gift of a future unknown.
The sound of "Beat The Devil�s Tattoo" comes from everywhere and nowhere. It draws a map and embarks on a sonic road trip through American music; from howling front porch stomps on the Chattanooga and beer-sloshing Texas roadhouse rockouts, to swaggering proto-punk sneering in NYC�s basement bars.
With songs of self-destruction and redemption, of heartbreak and ecstatic love, "Beat The Devil�s Tattoo" traverses much emotional ground. BRMC�s ceaseless drive to create, to tell stories of redemption and aching desire, keeps them going. It�s an addiction, an unquenchable thirst appeased only by the undying love of rock and roll.
�To me music connects everyone and everything, that is the light,� Been says, �If we�re able to write something, and someone can relate to it, or feel something from it, the light is blinding."
Thanks be to Rock. Amen. |
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