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The band announced the release of the album's first single, "Well They're Gone", on their website on March 1, 2012, allowing visitors to download the track for free after entering their email address. A music video for the track "Sad Vacation" was released to
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sprawl, the curled-lip snark and bad puns endemic to so many Dandys releases", but "an all-too-fitting descriptor of a band going through the motions", commenting that frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor "just sounds bored".
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writes that the band sounds "refreshed and rebooted" and the album "is possibly their best yet", despite ultimately being "a triumph of inventive arrangements and lush production over songwriting."
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in blog posts on the band's official website). On the same tour, the band debuted two new songs which would later appear on the album, "Seti vs. the Wow! Signal" and "Rest Your Head".
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suggests that the Dandy Warhols are actually improving with age, which is an even bigger accomplishment." Stephen Dalton in his review for the magazine
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on the track "The Autumn Carnival"; J co-wrote the song and supplied backing vocals and bass guitar to the track.
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is alternately sullen and unconvincingly earnest, and inoffensive to a fault. As the appropriately titled
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and is to be released in February 2012 (Taylor-Taylor had previously jokingly announced it as
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This article is about the album by The Dandy Warhols. For the EP by The Naked and Famous, see
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Tim Johnston – Drums, backing vocals recorded at Coloursound Recording Studio,
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gave it a 5.1/10 grade, their highest rating for a Dandy Warhols since 1997's
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The album has received a mixed response from critics. Benjamin Aspray of
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wrote "Like reformed alcoholics who were more fun when they drank,
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Dalton, Stephen (July 2012). "The Dandy Warhols - This Machine".
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in May 2011 as part of their 2011 Australian tour, lead singer
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This Machine (EP)

Studio album
The Dandy Warhols
Label
The End
Producer
The Dandy Warhols
The Capitol Years 1995–2007
Distortland
Singles
rock
The Dandy Warhols
The End
Sydney
Enmore Theatre
Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Bauhaus
David J
YouTube
Metacritic
AllMusic
The A.V. Club
Robert Christgau
(2-star Honorable Mention)
(2-star Honorable Mention)
Classic Rock
Consequence of Sound
Pitchfork
PopMatters

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