THE DANDY WARHOLS RETURN!
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Parlophone Records
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June 27, 2005
Note: This is the press release for the U.K. release of Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars.
‘DIG!’ CO-STARS RETURN WITH BRILLIANT NEW ALBUM
‘ODDITORIUM OR WARLORDS OF MARS’, OUT SEPTEMBER 12th
NEW SINGLE ‘SMOKE IT’ RELEASED 29th AUGUST
LOLLAPALOOZA PERFORMANCE CONFIRMED
The Dandy Warhols will release their fifth album,
Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, on September 12th.
Named (at least partially) after the band’s infamous
Portland studio headquarters, 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, The
Finn Brothers) and Taylor-Taylor.
Odditorium or Warlords of Mars is full of the band’s
trademark heady mix of seamless rock hooks and sonic
experimentalism, spanning turned-on drone rock,
country blues, electronic pop and deep psychedelia -
all spun through the Dandies’ kaleidoscopic musical
palette.
‘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 Bluesy rock, part Velvet Underground comedown ,
part blacklight psychedelia, part country/western, and
all their own. The song’s video features the band
performing the song in the Odditorium for 40 visibly
impressed dogs.
The Dandy Warhols will herald the album’s release with
their only live performance of the summer at
Lollapalooza, to be held in Chicago’s Grant Park on
July 23rd and 24th. A full-scale North American fall
tour will be announced shortly, along with an acoustic
“Suitcase Tour” in which the band will play using
everything they can fit into a single suitcase
(besides acoustic guitars).
The Dandy Warhols can be also be seen as co-stars of
Ondi Timoner’s hit documentary film Dig!, winner of
the Grand Jury Prize Documentary at the 2004 Sundance
Film Festival. The film, narrated by Taylor-Taylor,
chronicles the uniquely dysfunctional relationship
between the Dandies and their unpredictable friends
the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It is released in the UK
on July 1st.
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
The Dandy Warhols are:
Courtney Taylor-Taylor - vocals, guitars, keyboards,
percussion
Peter Holstrom - guitars, bells
Zia McCabe - keyboards, bass, percussion, harmonica,
vocals
Brent DeBoer - drums, bass, vocals
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