The epically-stoned "Love Is The New Feel Awful" sets the tone, Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s breathy vocals sprawling luxuriantly across the song’s first six minutes, before everything gradually disintegrates in a bad trip of caterwauling free-jazz trumpets; meanwhile, "Smoke It" – a rambunctious, party-time hymn to hedonism – further enhances the narcotically-enhanced mood. Arguably, the album’s highlight comes with "All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey" – a Stonesy, number that builds from minimal beginnings into a horn-laden anthem beamed in from some seedy ‘60s pool-hall. Over a decade in the game and the Dandy Warhols still sound like they’re having a ball: either it’s something they put in the water in Portland, Oregon, or the drugs are still most definitely working – Louis Pattison

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Named (at least in part) after the band’s recording studio in Portland, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars is the new album from The Dandy Warhols. Having formed in 1994, this is the Dandys’ fifth album and the first release since 2003’s Welcome To The Monkey House.
Odditorium… is an expansive rock ‘n’ roll album which could only come from the minds’ of the Dandys, and sees the band adding new flavours to their trademark mix of seamless rock hooks, turned-on drone, deep psychedelia and a big shot of the country blues. The first single "Smoke It" is a notable return to form as the band revisit and update the classic sound of their biggest album Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia.

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