THE DANDY WARHOLS RETURN!

Emi Australia Records
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June 28, 2005

Note: This is the press release for the Australian. release of Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars.

‘The Dandy Warhols will release their fifth album, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, on September 11th.

Odditorium or Warlords of Mars finds the band venturing beyond the synthesized pop of 2003’s Welcome to the Monkey House into expansive new musical terrain, while frequently revisiting the stripped-down sound of their earlier years. The album was produced by frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor with longtime band collaborator Gregg Williams and mixed by Tchad Blake (Elvis Costello, Latin Playboys, Neil Finn, Pearl Jam) and Taylor-Taylor.

“Love is the New Feel Awful” is a psyched-out mini-symphony of squalling guitars, whispered harmonies, tribal drums and intercepted satellite transmissions. “The New Country” is, yes, a countrified stomper with dreamy layered vocals and a deep-space hootenanny full of banjos, harmonicas, picking and - quite likely - grinning. “Down Like Disco” sets off in a Crazy Horse-worthy gale of unbridled electric guitars and peaks with a sun-soaked chorus and a twisted trail of feedback.

Lead single “Smoke It” is classic Dandies all the way - part classic Brit rave-up, part Velvet Underground comedown, part blacklight psych, part workmanlike country / Western, and all their own. It goes to radio and TV from July 25. The song’s video features the band performing the song in the Odditorium for 40 visibly impressed dogs.

THE DANDY WARHOLS, ODDITORIUM OR WARLORDS OF MARS
1. Colder Than The Coldest Winter Was Cold
2. Love Is The New Feel Awful
3. Easy
4. All The Money or The Simple Life Honey
5. The New Country
6. Holding Me Up
7. Did You Make A Song With Otis
8. Everyone Is Totally Insane
9. Smoke It
10. Down Like Disco
11. There Is Only This Time
12. A Loan Tonight

EPIC FIFTH ALBUM, “ODDITORIUM OR WARLORDS OF MARS,” OUT SEPTEMBER