Distortland

"Distortland is the Dandies' ninth studio album, the name an obvious play on their hometown of Portland, Oregon. A smoggy, blue and brown photograph of the Portland skyline features on the album cover. Despite their being a staple of ol' PDX, a team to be cheered on alongside the likes of the Trail Blazers or the Decemberists, it has never been as easy to find a through line to the soggy Northwestern heart of their music as it is in, say, the writings of Colin Meloy. So this explicit homage is interesting, a suggestion that they may let their roots show through on the record. It delivers on this promise as much as it doesn't".

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