Rolling Stone's Welcome To The Monkey House review - Australia (4 out of 5 stars)
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Rolling Stone Australia
Welcome To The Monkey House
by Ian Watson
July 2003
Urban bohemians get free with Duran Duran and Chic.
Oh gee, How fabulous. Like the original Warhol, the
profoundly shallow Dandy Warhols have gathered their
wonderful new friends around them for their fourth
album. Fellow flake-cum-hedonist Evan Dando shows up
to freebase some class A insouciance in the Prefab
Sprout-do- “Ashes to Ashes” pop of “You Were the Last
High”. Ex-Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon, the man who
invented indulgence in the 1980’s, coos backing on the
falsetto sigh of “Plan A”. Chic’s Nile Rogers,
meanwhile, joins the party on “I Am the Scientist”,
which nearly encapsulates the Dandy Warhols’ new
direction: 80’s-style, drop dead electro pop,
influenced by Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins, Flock of
Seagulls, et, al. Crazy idea, but the supremely
self-obsessed Dandies make it work.
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