Is Everything Just Dandy Now With Dandys' Upcoming Album?

Oregonian
by Robin Roth
November 29, 1996

Slabtown.net note: This article is taken while the band was working on "Come Down" and after the disaster of the "Black Album"

"Melodrama" only begins to describe the mishaps that have befallen the Dandy Warhols' Capitol Records debut since its announcement last year.

The Dandys have come in for criticsm lately, and not only from their label, which rejected the band's first efforts, and from others who say the Dandys' second effort seems to be heading in the same direction.

Producer Tony Lash apparently agreed, having found the release too drag to do the final mix. Others, though, say it was the Dandys who dissed Lash.

The Dandys' Courtney Taylor, naturally, is in the latter camp. Lash, he says, just couldn't produce the right sound. The band hired Tchad Blame, whose credits include Cibo Matto and Los Lobos, to do the final mix. Tentatively titled "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down," the release is due out in March.

"Things are going smoothly now," Taylor says. "For a long time, it looked like the record really sucked. We got so far inside that I couldn't tell if it was good anymore. Tony's very smart and he's really disciplined, but he makes the music that appeals to the intellect, which is the most un-rock 'n' roll thing there is. Aesthetically, he is not mixing it because the pressure is to be radio-friendly when it comes to the final mix.

I want a swirling wall of confusion and sound, which is what I feel," Taylor adds. "Because if I don't make the record for myself, I am an idiot. I have to listen to this for the rest of my life.

"It's a beautiful record. If I like it, I don't care if it sells or not: Someone has supported me to make music. I could go to my grave pleased as punch."