Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter at the Feast (Colored Vinyl 2LP)

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's sixth album, Specter At The Feast (2013) ventures into diverse sonic territory, delivering one of the band's most ambitious offerings to date. It's an album of impossible dichotomies; opposing sounds amalgamate into a seamless, entirely coherent package, that rumbles with driving rhythms, and soars with skyward-arcing guitar howls.

Robert Been delivers growling bass grooves on "Hate the Taste," and Peter Hayes' guitar wails on what may be their most hard-rocking song, "Rival." Counterbalancing these frenetic outbursts are moments of star-gazing ambient textures, like the crystalline harmonics introducing the slinking album opener, "Fire Walker," and the organ drones of "Returning." There are moments of down-home blues paired alongside flailing punk bombasticism; gnarled dark rock shores upon uplifting, and optimistic anthems. Taking cues from all points of the band's many years on the road, this record is the band's most well-realized album to date.

Above all, Specter At The Feast is honest; it tells the story of a journey to Hell and back, revealing that in darkness, there can be light. Wounds will eventually heal, and maybe, music can save your life. As they sing on "Returning," "I will follow you ‘til we all return, ‘til we know our souls survived."