Free Download: New Dandy Warhols Song: "Well They're Gone"

From their upcoming seventh full-length album This Machine, due April 24 via the End Records (the same day Jack White's debut solo album Blunderbuss comes out. DAMN, that is going to be a good day!). Just click the top left of the Dandies' website to download.

One word: Wow. For the first time since Welcome To the Monkey House (Capital, 2003), the Dandy Warhols sound like they're trying something new - and pulling it off. Moreover, they sound like they actually give a crap about what they're doing; "Well They're Gone" is deliberate - meticulous - a clear change of pace from the Dandies' recent habit of of banging out mediocre pop-rock or cobbling together failed aimless, droning, ambient experiments.

"Well They're Gone" falls somewhere between the farmer's tan complexion of Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capital, 2000) and the light, dreamy electronic swirls of Welcome To the Monkey House, specifically "Insincere Because I" blended with the melody and rhythm of "I Am Sound" sedated by horse pills. "Well They're Gone" also exudes a bit of a haunting Gorillaz gloam as well, perfectly conjuring an image of a dead Western town - tumbleweeds and saloon doors gently blowing open and closed at sunset. Even This Machine's cover art and promo shots imply an earthy, pastoral, slightly deathly mood.

Considering folky, whimsical songs like "Big Indian" and "The Gospel" from Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia rank as some of the Dandy Warhols' finest work (their finest examples of song-writing for sure, excluding "Genius"), if "Well They're Gone" faithfully represents the album to come, This Machine will definitely be the Dandies' best album in nearly a decade. And long-time Dandies fans won't have to breathe yet another sigh of disappointment.

Oh, and there's this. BOOYAH!!! Dandy Warhols round 2! Happy Almost-Birthday to myself: