Mojo's Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia review
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Mojo
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
by Lois Wilson
July 2000
Not so difficult third album of drontetastic ditters from Portland, Oregon glamsters.
It used to be just bosoms, smack and gaudy pop (t)art filler from the Dandy Warhols. Keyboardist Zia McCabe's onstage stripping antics and group taunts of Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth were the focal points. Five years on and there's still the flash of naked flesh, but this time with the music to back it up. Where debut Dandys Rule Okay and follow-up The Dandy Warhols Come Down comprised radio friendly hit singles but little else, third album Thirteen Tales is plain, peachy-keen. The existential bohemia of opener Godless with it's horn parping, shoegazing cathedral of sound is the perfect contrast to the art fag sleaze of Horse Pills and the trashy Solid. Country Leaver is draped in Lee Hazelwood influence and honky-tonk slide guitar, Nietzsche recalls MBV's relentless mesmeric drone while the trance-like Mohammed has Buffalo Springfield jamming with the Master Musicians of Joujouka. A stoner's paradise from start to finish. Most pleasurable.
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