“You’ve got to wake up and be a man,” Newcombe commands early on in Revelation, “and have a plan.” This ain’t no twelve-step jive-talking bullshit. “Duck and Cover” plays like what the new Horrors album probably sounds like to members of The Horrors, while the acoustik motorik “Goodbye (Butterfly)” floats off in an endless jangling chug with “doot-doot” backing vocals that suggest a certain amount of sympathy for the devil. ![]() Meanwhile, what could be considered mis-steps just sound like curious diversions - the flute-garlanded Wicker Man folk stylings of “Second Sighting”, and the ensuing pairing of bedroom beat-driven tracks which follow spring instantly to mind.īut BJM know which side of their bread is buttered, and their genre synthesis works better here than most other recent Jonestown albums - and, indeed, most other retro-stylists in the field. Yet, the eclecticism works the highlights ring out like shots - thundering opener “Vad Hands Med Deem”. ![]() Self-recorded on an almost non-existent budget, the album works much like those early Jonestown records, where all bases got covered: there’s gauzy krautpop, swaggering Stones rockers and dazed country - and that’s just the first three tracks. Revelation is free and easy, the work of a group hitting their stride. More than any BJM album in years, it sounds like other musicians had an active hand in its creation. The jokey referential song titles are out, and the rest of the band, seemingly, are back in. The electronic experiments weren’t quite gone, but they hit a newfound coherence songs like the transcendent “Blue Order/New Monday” were blissed-out masterpieces, but they sounded like the work of a man trying to prove his worth after a while in the wilderness.Īs with its predecessor, Revelation suits its name perfectly. It was the best Brian Jonestown Massacre album in fifteen years. ![]() The tipping point came on 2012’s Aufheben - its knowing title, a multi-faceted German word which could mean “to destroy” or “to preserve”.
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