UWO Gazette's Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia review
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UWO Gazette
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
by Matt Pearson
October 4, 2000
Portland's The Dandy Warhols have returned with a solid rock album, complete with some serious twists.
After the opening track, "godless," the band heads directly into two very introspective songs that downplay Courtney Taylor-Taylor's vocals and focus heavily on the instrumentation. There is a haunting element to both tracks, which gently bleed into each other. While the first sways, the second buzzes. The band returns to this eerie, instrumental sentiment later on the album with the track, "sleep."
The album is a very interesting and complex mix of sounds. "country leaver" is a twangy, hee-haw number, while "horse pills" is a solid, rocking, tongue-in-cheek critique of superficial members of the male persuasion who rely on pills to make themselves appear more built. "get off" is a jaunty track whose simple title explains it all.
Then of course there's the hit, "bohemian like you," which is perhaps the band's most successful single to date. Clearly one of the catchiest songs to enter the mainstream in the past couple of months, "bohemian like you" on its own makes up for the seemingly unending number of Creed singles that have clogged the airwaves. The song has a playful, summer effect, likely a direct result of Taylor-Taylor's repeated "woo-whos."
With a clever album that showcases their very unique range of sounds and abilities, isn't it time for everyone to get a little bohemian?
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