19 March 2024
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Portland‘s groove masters THE DANDY WARHOLS have their new LP ROCKMAKER out.
Press-info: The cheekiest band in the land is back with ROCKMAKER, The Dandy Warhols‘ 12th studio album. Produced and recorded by the band at their studio/funhouse The Odditorium in Portland, ROCKMAKER sees the “Bohemian Like You” hitmakers celebrate their 30th year together with a sprinkle of glitter on their grime.
Accompanied by guests Debbie Harry, Slash, and Pixies’ Frank Black, The Dandy Warhols wrangle paranoia, untangle anxious discontent, and lust after life while the dance grooves go deeper, heady drones get weirder, and riffage fit for bong rips hammers. ROCKMAKER is the Dandy’s clearest statement yet, at no sacrifice to their outré leanings. This is the sound of outsider alt-psych fixtures looking in as the walls come down.”
Courtney Taylor-Taylor (frontman): Overall, Rockmaker is the manifestation
of our desire to hear a record of heavy raw punk and metal guitar riffs, but it has
its own alley.”
TUTV: As a long-time fan I like the smell of a new Warhols album all day long.
Their 12th one, titled Rockmaker has, overall, a dark psychedelic timbre and a
twilight tone with industrial rock shadows all over it. The distortion mixer and
eerie stories take them to a pretty obscure territory (Doomsday Bells / Danzig
With Myself / The Cross / Real People) where the sun isn’t invited.
Mind you, Portland‘s trailblazers still are, first and foremost, a mean riff-loaded groove machine (Summer Of Hate / Root Of Evil / I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem and the other 8 tracks) with an instant impact on your hips, but this trance-infused longplayer sounds as if it was recorded in a batcave, with Trent Reznor taking care of the production, rather than in a conventional studio with a sane engineer.
As we know, heroine is so passé, but it looks like the band will have a feel good summer of hate filled with alcohol, marijuana, (lou) weed, cocaine, nicotine, LSD and mushrooms. All future illegal raves will start and end with Rockmaker. Welcome to the Dandy Warhols‘ psychedelic Terrordome. Be ready for a wild ride.
Singles/clips: Danzig With Myself / I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem /
I Will Never Stop Loving You
– DANZIG WITH MYSELF –
Featuring Pixies’ maestro Black Francis
– I’D LIKE TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEM –
Featuring Guns N’ Roses’ guitar hero Slash
– I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU –
Featuring eternal glam star Debbie Harry
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