The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
(Parlophone/EMI) album review

Thanks to the twin weirdnesses of having their funniest - and possibly best - song on a TV ad, and being among the subjects of a critically acclaimed documentary (Dig!, well worth a slice of your life), The Dandy Warhols are now a strange kind of famous. But it seems that their detractors have had more impact than expected. Long accused by their Portland indie compadres of "selling out" to commercialism, Courtney Taylor-Taylor and co have responded by writing an album with no tunes, or indeed prominent features, at all. After 14 tortuous listens, nothing from this lazy, smug, arrogant and painfully uninspired album remains in my head. Agonising single 'Smoke It' is just the beginning. Avoid like a piss-streaked iceberg.

Charlie Ivens

originally appeared in The Fly magazine, September 2005 issue