PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been, and Nick Jago. This is the first album for the Echo Label following their departure from Virgin Records. Howl features brand new single "Ain't No Easy Way'" which is more country-rock than some of their previous material yet just as rocking.

AMAZON
With a name like Howl, youd expect the third album from San Franciscos Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to be their ugliest, heaviest statement yet. Think again. Kicking off with the spontaneous acoustic blues stomp of "Shuffle Your Feet", Howl starts as it means to go on: mellow, stoned, and sounding more authentically down-home than any band of sociopathic, narcosis-twisted punks have sounded since Primal Scream holed up in Memphis to write 1994s Give Out But Dont Give Up.

"Still Suspicion Holds You Tight" and "Fault Line" crib from early Dylan, rolling drawled vocals, finger-picked guitar and blasts of harmonica into brittle sneers of malcontent, while the sleepy "Promise" offers up a spaced-out, Spiritualized-style ballad embellished with sweet piano and sleepy brass. Meanwhile, as the titles might suggest, "Restless Sinner" and "Gospel Song" reach back still further into the annals of traditional Americana. What happened to Black Rebel Motorcycle Clubs rocknroll? They havent lost it altogether, but on Howl theyve consciously devolved their sound, and this stripped, mostly enjoyable blues record is testament to the virtue of taking a leaf out of the old rulebook Louis Pattison