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Apr 23, 2012With a record this charming, one can only hope they last two more decades.
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Apr 23, 2012It's the closest the band has come yet to something genuinely uplifting and irony-free -- no small feat for these tongue-in-cheek provocateurs, but This Machine suggests that the Dandy Warhols are actually improving with age, which is an even bigger accomplishment.
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Apr 25, 2012This Machine is not the result of the Dandys turning a corner or shifting direction, but rather taking the best of where they've been and applying it to where they're going.
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May 23, 2012This is far from a bad album but it's also far from matching their best... 'This Machine' is both an attempt to recapture the glory days and a sad admission that it can't be done.
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MagnetMay 24, 2012A record that plays like just the sort of effort we've come to expect from the Dandy Warhols: an uninspired, over-referential half-nod to the group's heroes. [No.87, p.54]
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May 7, 2012Quite frankly, it's f**king boring.
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Apr 23, 2012At the outset, This Machine seems like an apt title for a record that surges forth with a wiry, motorik momentum; by the end, it becomes an all-too-fitting descriptor of a band going through the motions.
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Apr 24, 2012Like reformed alcoholics who were more fun when they drank, This Machine is alternately sullen and unconvincingly earnest, and inoffensive to a fault. "16 Tons" is obviously an exception to this, and awful as it is, it represents a bold shamelessness that is nevertheless far preferable to the dry, strained hooks populating the rest of the album.
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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012This Machine sounds more like an off-cuts collection than a comeback. [Jul 2012, p.98]
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Apr 24, 2012An undistinguished slog of an album that counts an atrocious cover of "16 Tons" as one of its many grating moments.
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Apr 23, 2012This is a subdued, atmospheric affair, rooted in bangs-in-the-face, black-polish-on-the-fingernails '80s rock.
User score distribution:
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Jan 21, 2013
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May 9, 2012This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.