The Dandy Warhols Are Sound
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| Studio album by The Dandy Warhols | ||||
| Released | 14 July 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 11 September 2001 – 2 December 2002 | |||
| Genre | Neo-psychedelia, synthpop[citation needed] | |||
| Label | Beat the World | |||
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The Dandy Warhols Are Sound is a studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It is the original mix of the band's 2003 album Welcome to the Monkey House, by Grammy Award-winning soul music mixing engineer Russell Elevado. It was released on 14 July 2009, through Beat the World Records.
Background
Prior to the release of Welcome to the Monkey House, the band had been pressing for a version mixed by Elevado, whose credits include D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, The Roots' The Roots Come Alive, Common's Like Water for Chocolate and Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor, among others. Contrary to the band's wishes,[citation needed] the Elevado mix of Monkey House was shelved by Capitol Records and an alternate mix by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran was put out instead.
As Taylor-Taylor describes it, "There are two different approaches to mixing. One is very slick and clean, and Welcome to the Monkey House fits more into that category. Are Sound, however, has a sneakier profile. It seems very lo-fi and earthy, but the fact is, it's extremely precise."[1]
Are Sound is the preferred mix by Warhols guitarist Peter Holmstrom, who claims Monkey House "was not the version I wanted released".[2]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, except as noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Burned" | 7:02 | |
| 2. | "Scientist" | 3:13 | |
| 3. | "We Used to Be Friends" | 4:11 | |
| 4. | "The Last High" | Evan Dando, Taylor-Taylor | 6:27 |
| 5. | "Wonderful You" | 4:28 | |
| 6. | "The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone" | 2:12 | |
| 7. | "I Am Over It" | 4:46 | |
| 8. | "Heavenly" | 3:21 | |
| 9. | "Plan A" | 4:59 | |
| 10. | "Rock Bottom" | 3:02 | |
| 11. | "I Am Sound" | 4:05 | |
| 12. | "Insincere" | 3:30 | |
| 13. | "Pete Int'l Spaceport" | 4:19 |
| Bonus tracks | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 14. | "You Ain't Goin Nowhere" | 2:52 |
| 15. | "Last High" (live at the Enmore, Sydney, Australia, 2008) | 4:13 |
Reception
| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 62/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
| The A.V. Club | C[5] |
| Drowned in Sound | 6/10[6] |
| PopMatters | 6/10[7] |
| Uncut | [8] |
The album received a lukewarm critical reception in comparison to Welcome to the Monkey House. Uncut magazine wrote, "an LP that once raved shamelessly now shuffles, twitchily."[8] The A.V. Club, which praised Monkey House, called this mix "basically a tasteful killjoy. The bass is reduced to human levels, most of the synths are purged and the drums sound thin and trembly. The first Monkey House is full of consistently aggressive hook-mongering; this version is all deliberately becalmed jamming and repetition."[5]
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