- Record Label: Vagrant Records
- Release Date: Jan 12, 2018
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MagnetApr 17, 2018With BRMC, the curtains match the drapes in terms of words and music. [No. 150, p.51]
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Feb 9, 2018Wrong Creatures progressively follows 2013's Specter at the Feast, with a solid sound rooted in densely layered guitar work providing landscapes for deep lyrics, with supportive percussion. Been, Peter Hayes, and drummer Leah Shapiro bring the entirety of the band's career out with this album.
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Feb 2, 2018Echo is a lustrous cosmic echo of Walk On The Wild Side, while the Doorsy atmospherics and celestial hooks of Ninth Configuration and Question Of Faith shroud personal and religious soul-searching that suggest Wrong Creatures is actually a conversation with their younger, wronger selves. Certainly the dark carnival of Circus Bazooko and stirring postrock finale All Rise prove they’re tackling their crippling Psychocandy addiction, making Wrong Creatures something of a colourful rebirth.
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Jan 29, 2018Wrong Creatures succeeds far more often than it fails. It’s epic, full of attitude and done with a whole heap of style.
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Jan 25, 2018This album, like their previous works, except Howl, will do nothing to damage their legacy. Again, being non-threatening should not be viewed as a crime, especially here. Wrong Creatures scatter nearly great songs amongst forgettable ones.
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Jan 16, 2018Wrong Creatures is an impeccably produced record that will undoubtedly appeal to any devout Black Rebel Motorcycle Club listener. Every charging, hard rock guitar and squelching feedback strikes with a sharpness that does not come at the price of distortion. Still, the marked contrasts in Creatures give the impression that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club were aiming for a sweeping, meticulously-layered force of Be Here Now-like proportions.
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Jan 16, 2018At times, however, they come across as a little too ponderous, the likes of Haunt and stadium-indie plod Echo noteworthy mainly for their complete lack of spark. It makes for an album that, weighing in at an hour long, can feel rather bloated.
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Jan 16, 2018While they’re not radically altering their own musical DNA, they are still in their own way trying to figure out what they can and cannot do. While that probably sounds like a backhanded compliment for these rock‘n’roll veterans, it might actually be the secret to their longevity.
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Jan 16, 2018Wrong Creatures is an often somber listen, better done at night. It isn’t Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at their peak, although it shows the three seasoned musicians doing a good job in their own field.
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Jan 12, 2018On Wrong Creatures, it's refreshing to hear a band so wrought with spiritual and emotional demons find their rock & roll grace and let it rip.
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Jan 12, 2018Wrong Creatures is just disappointing.
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Jan 11, 2018It’s their most accomplished clawing-back so far of the basic dark rock’n’roll street-smarts that were lost as they cast fruitlessly around for new directions with projects like the acoustic album Howl and the awful noise-scape effort The Effects Of 333 (their very own Metal Machine Music).
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Jan 10, 2018The whole album is driven by that Nick Cave sense of foreboding menace, an outlaw spirit that would sit well on the Peaky Blinders soundtrack. But while there’s plenty of that classic BRMC ‘tude, and a vintage touch, they’re still full of ideas.
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Jan 10, 2018Fans of BRMC, fans of bluesy psych rock and fans of anyone that’s still out there trying to do it with a guitar will love Wrong Creatures. For fans of rock music that jolts you awake and holds you by the throat, It’s just not gonna rock you like it used to.
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Q MagazineJan 9, 2018Long-term aficionados will enjoy the sinuous throb of King Of Bones, while those thinking of rejoining the party, the expansive voodoo rattle of Haunt shows the band's mastery of (bad) mood has only matured with age. [Feb 2018, p.108]
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UncutJan 9, 2018It's the dumb, heads-down rockers that show BRMC at their best. [Feb 2018, p.24]
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Jan 9, 2018Wrong Creatures has just enough of what made BRMC right, and a few tantalisingly brief flourishes to boot, but it's a balance that can only be struck for so long.
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Jan 9, 2018Their problem is there are other bands doing this kind of thing better (Black Angels, we’re looking at you).
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Positive: 20 out of 33
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Mixed: 13 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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