Are they alt-rock? Power pop? Shoegaze? Garage rock? The Dandy Warhols – lynchpinned by guitar duo Peter Holmström and Courtney Taylor-Taylor – are probably all of the above, and more. The best-known work by the Portland, Oregon-formed group include 1995’s and 1997’s . But Holmström and Taylor-Taylor also dig their ‘00s stuff, (2000) and (2008).
Together with bassist Zia McCabe and drummer Brent DeBoer, they’re still at it, as 2024 record proves. The sounds they create run the gamut of Love and Rockets, Christian Death and The Yardbirds. “The hard thing about being in this band is we’re all super uptight about sounding like we’re imitating something that we’re not,” Taylor-Taylor says.
“Obviously, imitation is a wonderful exploration. But for us, it has to be something that hasn’t been imitated lately.” “I like sounds that are kind of happy accidents,” Holmström adds, “and just being fascinated by, ‘What does this do? And if I do it more than once, what does that create?’” Taylor-Taylor agrees: “That’s another part of the weirdness and the noise.
The difference is really how much ugliness is in your beauty. I think we’re gonna keep coming back to that as a theme.” “I was never a bedroom shredder.
When I was growing up, it was more about playing chords and making sounds. And once I heard My Bloody Valentine, all I wanted to do was make noise and textures. “So it’s been that sort of approach, more than fancy leads and .
