"Rockmaker" is Dandy Warhols' new release

We've made up our minds: the Dandy Warhols are resolutely more Warhols than Dandy. Their art, like Andy's, is that of duplication. For twenty years, Courtney Taylor-Taylor and her clique have been reproducing. Not identically, but with constants. Not by following a recipe, but without forgetting that you should never abandon something that works. That something is the personality of the Portland gang or, most certainly, that of its singer, who doesn't want to be a leader, but whose temperament and musical leanings strongly imbue the music. Here again (and the album title doesn't beat about the bush), the guitar riffs - provided by Peter Holmström - are low and heavy, the cauldron-colored drums are hammered with persistence.
Courtney's voice, a kind of tunnel around the lights, would speak volumes even if you didn't understand the lyrics.

He handles irony so well: "The Summer Of Hate", "l'd Like To Help You With Your Problem". Less so Dandy than Warhols, to the point of inviting Slash into the latter, a kind of iron showdown. 

Supple in their Western boots, they verge on paraphrasing in "Danzing With Myself", which Frank Black pixilates with noisy guitar interventions. 

In the rhythmic canning department, there's "Alcohol And Cocainemarijuananicotine" which, even at low revs, is a real banana. The whole thing is mixed by Jagz Kooner (Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers), who has worked hard to ensure that "Rockmaker" will not be nominated for a Grammy Award. Confronted with Debbie Harry's voice in "I Will Never Stop Loving You", he decided to lose her in a reverberant jungle, to let her do her thing, at the foot of a wall of sound.