B.R.M.C. set to release new album

Baby 81, the fourth album from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, will be released May 1st on RCA.

After 2005’s journey into Americana on Howl, the new release marks some transitioning back towards their earlier, thrashier style. It opens with a song taken from a two-year-old session and ends with one Peter Hayes wrote in his late teens on strings and xylophone.

Baby 81 also shows B.R.M.C. might be growing up and growing more concerned about social issues than motorcycles. The album title refers to an infant admitted to the hospital during the 2004 tsunami who was claimed by nine different mothers until being returned to its real family.

Some of the song titles are just as ambiguously dark, like “Took Out A Loan,” “Berlin,” “Lien On Your Dreams” and “Need Some Air.” Pure guitar-driven world protest and social commentary.

Related Links:
B.R.M.C. official site
B.R.M.C. on Myspace

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