Review: The Dandy Warhols’ This Machine
“Don’t put a band together with musicians who are good enough to imitate anyone well.”
–Courtney Taylor-Taylor¹
I didn’t know The Dandy Warhols had a new album coming out until the Monday before its Tuesday release. Suddenly there it was; lingering in my peripheral vision, coaxing me out of a lack of cognition. And This Machine is a particular gift.
I’ve been a fan for quite a while; ever since Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth there has been a place in my ears for their workings. Always maintaining a certain pop sensibility, I’ve found them to use this to their advantage in creating complex songs hiding under the simplicity of catchy constructions.
As a result they’ve become easy to dismiss for some, but it’s nothing they’ve done.
