BRMC Beat the Devil's Tatoo album review

The latest album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an interesting step in a new direction for them. The first track, Beat The Devil’s Tattoo is a dark sounding song with a marching beat to it. It’s almost haunting to an extent, what a great opening track. Following that up is Conscience Killer which starts out just as haunting. Then gets into high gear and really rocks out. At first listen, I thought this was a concept album. And I liked the new sound. But quickly I realized it wasn’t a concept album and that new sound wasn’t going to last throughout the record. As we make it deeper into the album the sound changes. You get some decent ballads and plain rock songs that you would expect from BRMC. With the same fuzzy sound you’ve heard off of Howl and BRMC. River Styx sticks out to me as their new sound. So they dipped their toe in something new but didn’t follow through on the entire album. I am not sure why, it could be just they weren’t willing to make that commitment or maybe they just aren’t adept to writing 12 songs in that format. I really like the new direction. I really like BRMC and I like to see bands grow. I think this is a small step in that direction. Let’s hope the next step resembles a moon walk in their new direction.