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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
EMAILPRINTby Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 15 votes
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Album Info
Label: Virgin
Release Date: 03 April 2001
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
Summary
The major-label debut from the British-influenced rockers from Los Angeles.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Wall of Sound
These songs don't require repeated listening to foster appreciation; they affect immediately -- and relentlessly.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
Consistently excellent and deserves to be heard by fans of 70's glam and shoegazer alike.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
All of these incredible songs shimmer and vibrate with the riotous majesty of 'Psychocandy' without a trace of the Mary Chain's post-'Honey's Dead' self-parody.
Read Full Review >Launch.com
B.M.R.C. deliver potent, intelligent, memorable melodies that are both subtle and provocative.
Read Full Review >Magnet
This California band seems to be one of those rare times when the major labels get it right. [#50, p.80]
All Music Guide
This self-produced major-label debut boldly plunders a reverb-and-white noise course previously trampled underfoot by long-gone British bands of the late '80s and early '90s (the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Verve, Ride, the Stone Roses, etc.).
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
There's a defiance to BRMC's carefully crafted mix of brooding vocals and blurred melody that unites disparate musical elements into blasts of noisy cohesion and howling passion. [#155, p.72]
Q Magazine
What makes BRMC extra special and what steers them well clear of parody drone-rock territory is their three-dimensional sound. [Jan 2002, p.103]
CDNow
Although the album lags somewhat in parts and is bogged down a bit by an overarching sameness, this is a promising start.
Read Full Review >HOB.com
A flawless blend of acoustic-turns-into-fuzz guitar work and backbeat rhythms that create the aural equivalent of fog.
Read Full Review >Mojo
All BRMC really have in common with The Strokes is hype and haircuts, but their music lives up to both. [Feb 2002, p.92]
Trouser Press
When it pays off -- which is more often than not -- BRMC's fuzzed- out angry shoegazer stance reaches levels of sonic brilliance unmatched by any of their peers.
Read Full Review >Neumu.net
They're merely using Psychocandy as a workaday aesthetic strategy and, despite loads of melodrama, they never sound pretentious about it either.
Read Full Review >Blender
Always dark, sometimes lovely. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.105]
Uncut
One Lupine Howl is already too much, thanks. [Feb 2002, p.111]
Dot Music
Either they've been taking too much heroin or not enough, but 'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' is as limp as a soggy spliff the ragged morning after.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
kit gave it a10:
quite possibly the best album of all time
lenny s gave it a10:
best blend of rock for thee ages... and such
Ben T gave it a10:
pedal to the metal, dark, layered rock that vairies from the desolate brilliance of Awake to the viceral progression of Whatever Happened...album of 2001
Saskia V gave it a 10:
A (Dutch) critic once described a (Dutch) author as a 'soul without a skin'. That's exactly what I think of this album: it's sensitive, moving and honest.
le critical gave it a 9:
i've always loved bands that take their influences, marinate and modify the sound, and come up with a great distinct album not to mention the interesting band name. You and I both know that the next album these guys make will be the greatest.
Fabio C. gave it an 8:
it´s the album the gallagher brothers are dreaming to make since a long time. this music is dirty, full of angst and rock in its pure clothes. sure as the sun has a bass loop that worths the entire cd. perfect to walk in an unknown city.
David P. gave it a 8:
Best new sounding anything in years. Punk energy with outstanding sensitivy in it's lyrical content. I rocked out, I "felt" out!
