Alternative Press' ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down review
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Alternative Press
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
by Jeremy Helligar
September 1, 1997
The Warhols’ long-gestating major-label debut is not a major step forward, although there’s no way could you confuse it with its predecessor. More assured, if less idiot ebullient, Come Down focuses on what made Dandys Rule OK so special, then amplifies all of it. The seven-minute opener, “Be-In,” apes an orchestral tune-up before developing into a crashing concerto for distortion and freakiness; the closer, “The Creep Out,” follows last times epic “Fast Driving Rave Up” in simply pounding the album to a fuzz-soaked pulp (imagine Jesus & Mary Chain if they’d been as good as people said they were, or Hawkwind if they played lo-fi Hammond organs. Driving. Dirty. Dense.
The album may be a tag overlong at 66 minutes, and a couple of tracks round the halfway-mark lag “Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth” apparently exists only for its “heroin is so passé” refrain, and a little later, “Cool As Kim Deal” lifts its rhythm from the Monkees’ “Stepping Stone” but doesn’t do much else. It’s also a shame there was no room for the Neil Young cover Courtney Taylor once threatened. But petty gripes are sordid gripes when arrayed against an album this majestic, and the Dandys emerge triumphant once more. Surf music for the new millennium.
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