The Dandy Warhols
Distortland
*** out of *****
The band, Courtney Taylor-Taylor - vocals, guitars, Peter Holmström - guitars, Zia McCabe - keyboards, Brent DeBoer - drums, are locked in their wandering lazy freakout style so much so that Distrotland can sound derivative, but the band is always wandering to the next sonic venture.
The synths open the disk via "Search Party" with a pulsing rhythm while "STYGGO" takes up the dance vibe with its doo-doo-doo's and hand claps. The best track on the disk is "You Are Killing Me" which seems to blend everything that the Dandy's do best into one effort. It flirts with a chugging tense riff/dream-pop mix while delivering the clearest vocal from Taylor-Taylor on the album.
Not everything works though as "All The Girls In London" goes for barroom rave up but feels more like a half baked experiment and "Semper Fidelis" is muffled in all the wrong ways with submerged vocals and dull musicianship.
With titling the album as a pun to their hometown the band continues to claim the trendy northwest city as home and this disk will satiate longtime fans and maybe even newcomers to the City of Roses.
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