Have you ever listened to an album and wondered what the deuce took you so long to listen to it, since it seems to have been made for you and you alone to hear it? Such is the way I feel about The Dandy Warhols' Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia. Starting immediately with the epic introduction of "Godless," this album is an almost completely and consistently flawless album.
As I've said dozens of times before, I really appreciate when a band/musician is able to bring together a variety of styles and sounds without compromising their integrity and sounding like a cover band. Genre songs like "Country Leaver" and "The Gospel" do justice to the styles they are emulating, but it never stops sounding like The Dandy Warhols. Not only do The Dandy Warhols bring the variety in a big way, the songs flow together, not unlike how they do in Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.
Even the songs without lyrics are engaging. Tunes like "Mohammed" and "Sleep" set up their chord progressions and just jam on them, building in such a way that you have no choice but to notice the different sounds coming at you (although it is fairly impossible for me to listen to "Sleep" without at least humming along the tune to Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"... you try).
I don't really know what else to add. Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia is just a consistently delicious 11/13 tracks of listenable awesomeness.
Rating: 4.6 stars
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