Guitar.com's Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia review (8 out of 10)
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Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
by Buzz Morison
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Turning musical dandyism into an art, Portland, Oregon's Dandy Warhols have constructed a rambling, swirling, self-important third album that aspires to greatness. They used to call this shoe-gazing, and while eye-grabbers such as the dense, fuzzy "Nietzsche" and the droning strumathon "Mohammed" are hypnotic in their repetitive layers and sumptuous shifts in Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Pete Holmstrom's guitar accents, they aren't really songs so much as musical fragments stretched out to orgasmic lengths. It isn't until the fussy, funny grind of "Horse Pills" and the upbeat subversive bopper "Get Off" that frontman Taylor-Taylor's songwriting clicks and Bohemia takes off. The Dandy Warhols have tried to make an album homage to the '70s by borrowing liberally from music of that time, including the unrepentant Stones rip "Bohemian Like You," and while these Tales are clever and sturdily musical, they seem self-consciously stuck in the mid-nineties.
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