The Dandy Warhols Are Sound
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| Studio album by The Dandy Warhols | ||||
| Released | July 14, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | September 11, 2001 – December 2, 2002 | |||
| Label | Beat the World Records | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 62/100 |
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| AllMusic |    |
| The A.V. Club | C |
| Drowned in Sound | 6/10 |
| PopMatters | 6/10 |
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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 July 14, 2009, through the band's own label Beat the World Records.
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. 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. Peter Holmstrom later said that Monkey House was not the version that he wanted released. In 2008, the band split from Capitol and formed their own label, Beat the World Records. With the band now on its own label, Holmstrom said the band decided the time was right to re-release the album's original mix.
As Courtney 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."
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