Headcleaners's Every Day Should Be A Holiday review (10 out of 10)
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Headcleaner
Every Day Should Be A Holiday
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February 16, 1998
It's about time something good came out of America once more to remind us it's not just all Beck and the Beasties. The Dandy Warhols are that something. They have a great name, they look cool (apart from the one that looks like a young Rolf Harris) and they sound majestic. "Every Day Should Be A Holiday" is an explosion of psychedelia, electronica, harmonies and that hard to define something that sets it miles above most of the dross we get forced upon us so often. At times it reminds me of very early Shamen, with an electronic slab of sound and trippy vocals, whereas at others it reminds me of The Monkees gone hi-tech. Whatever it reminds me of, it's damn near essential.
First b-side is the Pixiesesque frightener of "One (Ultra Lame White Boy)", with shriek horror vocals and swirls of sound that sounds like a drug-fuelled party at a haunted house, with the Velvet Underground as house band. Last up is "Head", another harmony-heavy offering hanging off a Hispanic style guitar hook.
Famous for more than 15 minutes, mark my words.
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