| Dyslexicon | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 1, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Grunge | |||
| Length | 41:41 | |||
| Label | Ruffhouse [1] | |||
| Producer | Phil Nicolo [2] | |||
| Dandelion chronology | ||||
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Dyslexicon is the second and final album by the Philadelphia grunge band Dandelion, released in 1995. [3]
The band promoted the album by touring with Quicksand; they also played the 1995 Lollapalooza festival. [1] [4] Its first single, "Weird-Out", reached No. 14 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. [5] [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Robert Christgau |  [7] |
The Philadelphia Inquirer determined that "the band rages through every cliche in the modern- rock lexicon yet manages to make each one as invigorating as a cold shower in a heat wave." [4] Trouser Press wrote: "Despite the extra instrumentation ... Dyslexicon is bland, and an anticlimactic false ending provides a poetic inkling of the sputtering fade-out soon in store for this over-hyped band." [8]
The Hartford Courant stated: "Cut through the trippy fuzz that gives this album such a homogeneous throwback acid-rock feel, and you're into some seriously hard-core rock 'n' roll." [9] The Record concluded that "there is an intriguingly ever-present babble of raw noise just beneath the surface of Dyslexicon, but the vague cliches of the song titles—'Super Cool', 'Weird-Out', 'Whatever'—bespeak a group directionless and muddled." [10]
All tracks by Dandelion
Two promotional singles from the album were released, "Weird-Out" and "Trailer Park Girl." Both of these singles feature at least one or two remixes.
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