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- Record Label: Abstract Dragon/Vagrant
- Release Date: Mar 9, 2010
- Summary: With new drummer Leah Shapiro (who replaced Nick Jago), the rock band from San Francisco works to mix its rock side with the country/acoustic sound it revealed in 2005's Howl.
- Record Label: Abstract Dragon/Vagrant
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Beat The Devil's Tattoo | |
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You have forsaken All the love you've taken Sleeping on a razor There's nowhere left to fall Your body's aching Every bone is breaking Nothing seems... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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At its finest, the album serves as the ideal soundtrack for a fleet of lonely, grizzled bikers lost on a desert highway: slow-rolling and hardened, simultaneously seething, brooding, and wistful, and armed with the pride of vagrancy.
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Acoustic ballads, space-rock forays, and splashes of glam bubble up before it’s all over, while a pervasive darkness holds the album together. Happily, it seems BRMC’s odyssey continues.
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With an overall sound that seems inspired by a searing mix of old-timey blues mixed with a hypodermic blast of melodic noise, there is a driving, wild-eyed intensity to many of the tracks on Beat the Devil's Tattoo.
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The result is a collection rich in fan favorites, but lacking in momentum.
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They may have quenched their thirst for charging rock, but it’s their mellower songs that stand out.
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Under The Radar"Howl" prepared BRMC fans for the deeper blues foray Beat has fullly entered. [Winter 2010, p.62]
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Q MagazineBeat the Devil's Tattoo finds BRMC edging ever further toward parody. [Apr 2010, p.109]
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