The Dandy Warhols Are Mars Warlords On New Album

Chartattack.com
by Ashley Spegel
June 28, 2005


The Dandy Warhols are back, baby!

The DiG!-documented band's fifth studio album, Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars, guides listeners through the group's new musical territory while returning to the raw sound of their earlier years.

The disc, named after the Portland studio where it, along with the rest of the Dandies' albums, was recorded and was produced by frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor along with longtime band collaborator Gregg Williams.

The 12 tracks blend together Taylor-Talyor's harmonized layered vocals with rock hooks, country blues, electro-pop and rich psychedelia.

The album's first single, "Smoke It," incorporates their old school of Brit pop sound, blacklight psycheldia and workmanlike country/western. The video documents the band performing the song in the Odditorium for 40 facinated dogs.

You can check out the Dandy Warhols performing their only summer tour date at Lollapalooza at Chicago's Grant Park on July 24. A North American tour is set to follow, along with an acoustic "Suitcase Tour" where the band performs using everything they can pack inside a suitcase, excluding acoustic guitars.

ODDITORIUM OR WARLORDS OF MARS Tracklisting:

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