After the triumphant (and World) "13 Tales ...", the Warhols could plow the ground and release an album "meter reading", history to ensure a little more notoriety and the bank account (Nothing Vodafone contributed $ 1 million and a half dollars to use "Bohemian" in a pub ...). But these heads Bacon had something else in his head, because the repetition is anyway not the kind of home. Their meeting with Bowie -and their tour- they had certainly given a lot of ideas and Taylor-Taylor wrote a more thoughtful album, calmer, less immediate, with very different tones of previous orders. He co-wrote the very pop "The Last High" with Evan Dando of the Lemonheads, "Scientist" with David Bowie, the brief Warhols open and renewed, entrusting more joysticks Russell Elevado (Keziah Jones, Alicia Keys .. .), end producer that still rely on analog. We know the rest of the story, Capitol, does not stick, refuses the trick and refile covertly among other Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran (sighs genes in the room) for the final out Welcome to the Monkey House (including disowned by guitarist Peter Holmström) large package of electro-pop that at the time aback the emerging fan base of the band. The "original version" - the cover says "director's cut" - the So here (released on July 14 in honor of our national fète!) As the Warhols have always wanted and presented at Capitol. Russell Elevado production is much more refined and minimalist as the powerful electro-soft sound of Monkey House and we rediscover the most sensual songs (Plan A), most touching (The Last High), or just the best ... (The Scientist, it was this version that appears on the Best of the Capitol Years). In the end, the album seems frail and tinkered with respect to his double, almost a demo, but much closer to the spirit of the group. In short, a disk essential to better understand the Warhols.
