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This morning I caught myself thinking that I still haven’t written any review about album which I knocked to pieces. I caught myself on it because it won’t happen now..

The previous album of BRMC – The Effects of 333 is mixed depressive spot in the discography of the group – I never managed to understand and listen it until the end. Only in few songs I could recognize BRMC through the dense wall of ambient electronics. Otherwise, it only gave my head a strange viscous noise in the aftertaste..

I didn’t know what was expected from BEAT THE DEVIL’S TATTOO until the last moment. The band changed its drummer – behind the drum kit now is Leah Shapiro from The Raveonettes.

“She knows how to watch when she plays, there’s intuition and there’s the ability to watch our body language as we’re really going to dig into something.”
– Hayes about Shapiro.

It took 6 months to write a material and the peak 4 hours to record all songs on the Station House studio in Los Angeles. It was clear that the band has changed, but it was unclear how they have changed.

But after the first minutes of listening it became clear – BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB’s all right, and it seems to be absolutely stupid to doubt this.

“We wrote over 23 songs for this record and the hardest thing about it was probably narrowing it down to a final 13 track album. There’s just a strange effortlessness now, which I haven’t felt since we recorded our first album. It’s just got that kind of nervous, kind of excited, kind of unsure feeling, where we don’t know where it’s gonna go next, so everyone just stands out of the way.”

- Robert Levon Been.

The familiar riffs, vocals, and, what has always been the main – texts, have returned.

As for me, the group grew somehow. Lyrics became firmer and more confident. Hopes had not increased and the dark faces only gained sharpness. And yet – this album got the age. He brings the final line to the great deal of what was said in “The Howl” and “Baby 81” and female backing vocals in “The Tall”. He is damn good.
I haven’t had time to ask Mr. Internet what kind of view he has made about this album. But I should ask. And something tells me that my enthusiastic review isn’t the first one.