{"id":10896,"date":"2016-06-02T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T12:42:21","slug":"album-mini-review-dandy-warhols-distortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/02\/album-mini-review-dandy-warhols-distortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Dandy Warhols &#8212; Distortland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10897\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dandy_warhols.jpg\" alt=\"dandy_warhols\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dandy_warhols.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dandy_warhols-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01BG7MUOE&amp;asins=B01BG7MUOE&amp;linkId=4bdf68d0e2c1763d615b126553e1e8ae&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>Stone Roses<\/strong>, <strong>The Church<\/strong>, <strong>Brainticket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>Dandy Warhols<\/strong>&#8216; tenth studio album, the group engages in truth in labeling. Distortion is indeed at the heart of the dance-oriented, deep groove tracks. Throbbing synthesizer lines and fuzzed-out guitars are at the center of the album&#8217;s decidedly trancey aesthetic. Many of the tunes are built around a simple, hypnotic musical phrases that owe a clear debt to 1970s krautrock. The group often does a lot with a little: several tracks are one-chord jams. Twangy, surf &#8216;n&#8217; spy guitar is a key component of <em>Distortland<\/em>; throughout, <strong>Courtney Taylor-Taylor<\/strong>&#8216;s voice is breathy as ever. On \u201cSearch Party,\u201d banjos pluck along comfortably alongside synthesizer stabs that recall nothing so much as \u201c(Gonna Make You Sweat) Everybody Dance Now.\u201d The Dandys channel <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/30\/cd-review-t-rex-the-slider\/\"><strong>T. Rex<\/strong><\/a> on \u201cCatcher in the Rye,\u201d and \u201cYou Are Killing Me\u201d leans in a melodic, alternarock direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Stone Roses, The Church, Brainticket On the Dandy Warhols&#8216; tenth studio album, the group engages in truth in labeling. Distortion is indeed at the heart of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2715],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-dandy-warhols","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10909,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions\/10909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}