Dandy Warhols, The - ...Earth to The Dandy Warhols... (Album)
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I was pretty sure I’d hate this album. A few weeks ago I saw Mission Control on Rage...and hated it. It wasn’t The Dandy Warhols I knew and loved. It’s a space oddity of experimental crap that gives no justice to a band that has spent so much time being so great. I feel horrible bad-mouthing them, especially since I have an advanced copy and feel special – thus feeling obliged to praise it. But I cannot tell a lie. To my parents, yes. To my fellow music fans, I cannot.
It took me a while to get this review written, not only because I also have a real job but because it took me a while to get a feel of the album. Usually, as I assume it is with many other people, I get a feeling when I first hear a record. I listen to the whole thing and ponder ever song, every thought that it provoked and in this case it took a little longer than usual. Then I realised why: it’s a forgettable album.
Like I said, the single Mission Control was enough to signal sirens warning me of possible disappointment, but I soldiered on. D!G would forever cause me to expect a very high standard of off-the-wall sounds and psychedelia (or at least some fun...) from the Dandy’s, but right now Valerie Yum is playing and after 6 minutes it’s really starting to shit me.
I know it sounds like I really hate this album. It’s not so much hatred, more of a disappointment really. I know the past is the past and bands always want to ‘explore different sounds’ and ‘experiment’ but Earth to The Dandy Warhols is enough for me to break out into a Courtney Taylor-Taylor-like hissy fit of frustration and drug induced paranoid hysteria.
Spare yourself from the pain, and dust off the oldies, cos’ nothing cures a broken heart like good ol’ nostalgia.
