Oxford Student's Thirteen Tales From Urbam Bohemia review (2 of 5 stars)
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Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
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"Cool is the degree that you want", was how the Jesus and Mary Chain put it, and the Dandy Warhols still haven’t passed the prelims of this old study. Their never-ending and over-bearing search for a sort of cool that died out some years ago brings us another slice of slightly camp, guitar-fuelled and no doubt drug-ridden irony, only this time without the immediate impact of poppy singles like Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth. Picture the bloke you meet at the back of a gig, fresh out of some retro second-hand clothes store and suitably regaled in tight t-shirts, jewellery and seventies hair and you’ll get a good idea of the sort of folk we’re dealing with here. Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground loom large in their world, hence Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s ludicrously deep drawl, while hip philosophers and eastern spirituality are certainly ripe for a few posing song titles. The sub My Bloody Valentine dullness of some of these tracks is not carried off by a newly stripped down and
acoustic sound, while most of these songs bring us back to a time when the idea of stage presence involved a strange fascination with one’s shoes. So, as they put it, it’s probably best to Get Off this phoney beatnik bandwagon buy the original records so unfortunately ripped-off here and consider yourself all the cooler.
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