Dandy Warhols Redo Album

The Dandy Warhols' will release an alternate version of Welcome To The Monkey House titled The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound through their own Beat The World Records on July 14, more than six years after the original album's release.

Welcome To The Monkey House, co-produced by Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes, was the Portland, Ore. quartet's fourth full-length and featured the well-received "We Used To Be Friends" and "I Am A Scientist."

But the version Capitol Records released wasn't the one the band were backing. They'd been working with Grammy Award-winning mixing engineer Russell Elavedo (The Roots, Alicia Keys), and wanted his funkier version of Monkey House to hit stores.

"There are two different approaches to mixing," Dandy Warhols lead vocalist, guitarist and chief songwriter Courtney Taylor-Taylor explains. "One is very slick and clean, and Welcome To The Monkey House fits more into that category.

"ARE Sound, however, has a sneakier profile. It seems very lo-fi and earthy, but the fact is, it’s extremely precise."

The Dandy Warhols were dropped by Capitol in 2007 and released their sixth full-length, ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols..., last August through Beat The World. They've since released two remix EPs with songs from the album.