★★★★★
With Howl, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's best album, eight years behind them now, the Los Angeles trio seems content churning out respectable moody-but-energized rock records that very rarely break the mold. But these albums are the result of a specific and practically trademarked formula that works well for a band with some serious longevity. BRMC's seventh studio album, Specter At the Feast, is yet another durable record...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-05-18
★★★★★
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's career hasn't exactly been distinguished, but it has been long, and at some point you simply can't argue with longevity. Routinely dismissed as derivative mope rockers subsisting on the least interesting scraps of warmed-over Ride, Stones, and Brian Jonestown Massacre records, BRMC make music as predictable as their look: black shirt, black leather jacket, black shades, pouty lips, downturned heads...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-08
★★★★★
The uncharacteristic and painfully long intro on BRMC's sixth studio album Specter At The Feast lulls the listener into a kind of static hypnosis --- which does little to kick start the album but does paint a picture of the bands headspace. Many of the songs on the album are derived from a place of loss, inspired by the unexpected passing of Michael Been, the 'fourth' member and father of bass player Robert Levon Been...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-04-04
★★★★★
March 19, 2013
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 'Specter At The Feast'
BRMC dodge indoor-shades and leather-jacket-clad self parody to find a second wind
Album Info
Release Date: March 18, 2013 Label: Abstract Dragon
7 / 10
Six albums and 12 years in, BRMC could easily have descended fully into indoor-shades and leather-jacket-clad self parody...
- www.nme.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
It would seem that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's best days may be behind them. After 2010's uneven Beat The Devil's Tattoo, the LA band return with Specter At The Feast - a rather soft spoken, ghostly album as the title would suggest - and one which does not quite capture earlier glories...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
On their 2001 debut, B.R.M.C., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club offered a song titled "Whatever Happened to my Rock and Roll (Punk Song)," an energetic and attitude-driven paradigm for what the band thought rock and roll should sound like, or at least the attitude that rock bands should possess...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The days when Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would vie for front page headline space with The Strokes and Oasis are long gone. Which is arguably for the better, as despite being lumped in with the aforementioned and many more bands of the day, BRMC always stuck out like sore thumbs at an international manicure convention...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Music Reviews
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter at the Feast
(Abstract Dragon)
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What springs to mind when you think of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? I know I picture a modest, leather-clad, shades-donning stable that hold their trademark eerie, foreboding grooves in much higher regard than the dazzling spotlight that many bands ultimately aspire to fill...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Album Review: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At The Feast
Specter At the Feast could have been a complete downer, and part of me wishes it was. For it's the weepers here that resonate. This makes total sense, given Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' s 2010 loss of Michael Been, the former frontman of The Call who also produced, mentored, and sound engineered the band. More importantly, he was Robert Levon Been's father...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-04-01
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