- Record Label: World's Fair
- Release Date: Aug 19, 2008
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The best moments of ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... rival the Dandys' finest work, and despite some weak spots, it's a giant leap in the right direction.
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Merging the sounds of space rock with an element of trance and a smattering of early Velvet Underground experimentation, the group ends up with an enticing album that holds a fresh mix of sounds.
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Under The RadarEarth To The Dandy Warhols finds the band back in track in all the best ways. [Fall 2008, p.80]
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It’d be nice to hear something a little more rousing (album closer “Musee D’Nougat” drags on a sleeping synth-string progression for 14 unnecessary minutes), but like its vastly underrated predecessor, Earth is worth getting to know.
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Their sixth album (and the first on their own label) is their most self-assured set yet, veering from sparkling glam to funky New Orleans boogie by way of early Nineties shoegazing.
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Their smug posturing makes the Dandy Warhols a difficult act to like, but the sheer quality of their songcraft on Earth goes a long way toward earning them a measure of goodwill.
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Q MagazineThey may have no defining sound of their own, but they're admirable recyclers. [Oct 2008, p.141]
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The set is somewhat of a shambolic affair, wherein kernels of good ideas get blown out, jumbled up or lost in execution.
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Too often, Earth sounds like the Dandys have too many toys — or maybe too many ideas.
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Singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor has an undeniable way with a sticky-sweet hook -- too bad most of them are buried in self-indulgent sludge.
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They were better as clever corporate whores.
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Their sixth album is shambling and empty, spiked infrequently with a good bassline or an almost-good chorus, and even the jokes founder on the band’s contempt.
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If the lyrics were cleverer, they might work as a critique of vacant rock culture, but instead they come across as the embodiment of what they profess to be sneering at.
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Mojo'Welcome To The Third World' is a likeable pastiche of post-Chic funk, but tiresome country skits and Musee D'Nougart's 15 minutes of ambient fart-around are less welcome. [Oct 2008, p.110]
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Uncut[They've delivered] a spawling 70-minute opus devoid of drive or inspiration. [Oct 2008, p.83]
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Earth is a whopping 70 minutes long, and at no point in it do we get an idea of what exactly the fuck the Dandy Warhols are trying to tell us.
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It’s nothing more than a slap to those fans, then, that the music is so maddeningly poor, all pointless experiments in how to construct a solid alt-rock groove before burying it in a grave made out of studio sheen.
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Earth To The Dandy Warhols is just vacuous mid-tempo babble and clatter.
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To the rest of the western world, they are the arrogant stars of rock documentaries and Vodafone adverts, and their achingly dull eighth album does little to alter that assessment.
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Earth to the Dandy Warhols is as much of a joke album as "Metal Machine Music," except I don’t see any rock ‘n’ roll scholars finding anything particularly smart in this slop 20 years from now.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 36
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Mixed: 1 out of 36
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Negative: 12 out of 36
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Mar 25, 2016
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robNov 1, 2008Much better than the haters would have you believe.
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oscarlOct 8, 2008