The Dandy Warhols

The Dandy Warhols’ last album, Welcome to the Monkey House, came on like the drunken friend who yanks you a little too hard onto the dance floor. All you had to do was loosen up a little to realize that the joyously retro ’80s-pop bounce was good for you. This time around (fresh from way too much drooling hipster hype over the film Dig!), the Dandys take us on a more introspective journey. Fans partial to the band’s most dirgey work, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, will feel at home with these new songs, which creep along at a snail’s pace, without the rich, morose urgency of, say, “Nietzsche” or the playfulness of the car-commercial hit “Bohemian Like You.” The Dandys should be applauded for taking the chance, but Odditorium doesn’t seem to want to get up and go … anywhere. Newcomers should start with the back catalog first.