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Brussels, Belgium (2007 – present)

“Scuzzy guitars, crashing drums, unabashed energy and depth of soul.”

That’s how U.K.’s Rock Sound describes Black Box Revelation. Brussels, Belgium may not be known for producing great rock and roll bands, but don’t tell that to 22-year-old Jan Paternoster nor his 20-year-old sidekick Dries Van Dijck, who have been playing together for a decade, already releasing two albums, 2007’s Set Your Head On Fire and 2010’s Silver Threats (recorded in London’s legendary Konk Studios) that established the duo as a serious force to be reckoned with. A cross between R&B-inflected garage-band rock that takes its cues from mid-’60s Stones and The Kinks to the most gut-bucket, electric delta blues evocative of Led Zeppelin by way of The White Stripes, The Black Keys and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Box Revelation is just that… a musical revelation that can’t be boxed into a single category.

Coming to America to record their stateside debut, My Perception, with producer Alain Johannes in his L.A. home studio, Jan and Dries felt right at home in the country where so much of the music that inspired them had been made. The result is their most accomplished album to date, with sound and noise now coalescing into real songs like the title track and “Rattle My Heart,” which might have come straight from Out of Our Heads; the spooky acoustic strains of the Beatles-meets-Kinks British Invasion vibe of “Bitter,” the haunting, stark acoustic “New Sun,” the thick ambience of “2 Young Boys,” the percussive beat of “Shadowman” and the psychedelic blues of “White Unicorns.”
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  • kostastozisD

    LIKE

    16 days ago

  • eatyoualive-

    "I gonna see them at the hurricane festival this summer, yeeeeeahh!!" [2]

    29 days ago

  • Chromekk

    Do I Know You - such a powerful song!

    last month

  • Leonzwinderman

    Born To Die cover. Is damn beautiful!

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  • Storchel

    I gonna see them at the hurricane festival this summer, yeeeeeahh!!

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  • Kostova

    Is it me or Jan sounds like Jagger?

    March 2012

  • Goryo

    Seriously, if you make a name change like that, it's your own problem. You can't expect to have everyone on some music website change their iTunes tags. And personally, I don't care if it has "the" or not, the music is what counts. At least I'll know when they have an event. And if they are listed on a festival flyer with "the", we'll still know what band they're talking about. So stop making annoying comments about it.

    March 2012

  • Ejopaja

    Black Box Revelation without 'the', FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

    March 2012
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