Q Magazines ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down review (4 stars out of 5)
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Q Magazine
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
by Danny Eccleston
December, 2000
A minor miracle, Courtney Taylor's The Dandy Warhols, with their audible commitment to mid-'80s UK drone-rock a la Spacemen 3 and their equal lust for tunes and fun. Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth was this 1997 LP's irresistible cause clbre single ("You never thought you'd get addicted, just be cooler in an obvious way"). But Every Day Should Be A Holiday (acid house bleeps added to techno-rock undercarriage) is as individual, and the relentless Hard On For Jesus, if afforded a more rubbishy production, could have been on Creation in 1987. Green curiously recalls Echo & The Bunnymen, 96 Tears-type organ-quack adds extra levity throughout and you're left wondering why effects-pedal rock was ever adjudged dull. If we'd had this lot in the '80s baggy may never have happened.
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