{"id":83617,"date":"2019-06-06T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=83617"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:18:09","slug":"review-dinosaur-pile-up-celebrity-mansions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-dinosaur-pile-up-celebrity-mansions\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dinosaur Pile-Up &#8211; Celebrity Mansions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83641 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinosaur-Pile-Up-min-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinosaur-Pile-Up-min-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinosaur-Pile-Up-min.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After a wobbly release schedule for their previous record <em>&#8216;Eleven Eleven&#8217;,<\/em> Yorkshire&#8217;s <strong>Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/strong> are back, fittingly to their fourth album&#8217;s title being released through Parlophone Records. <em>&#8216;Celebrity Mansions&#8217;<\/em> is their attempt at creating a larger than life, heavily Americanised record that borders on satiring how rock bands are perceived in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The glaring problem, however, seems to be that some of the cliche rock tropes that <strong>DPU<\/strong> play around with are sort of funny at best, and painful at worst.<em> &#8216;Thrash Metal Cassette&#8217;s&#8217;<\/em> playful pop-punk chorus is innocent enough, however, its momentum is derailed by the schoolgirl chants of <em>&#8220;Put it up yeah, put it up for thrash metal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Similarly<em> &#8216;Back Foot&#8217;<\/em> incorporates unappealing Faith No More\/Limp Bizkit impersonations from frontman Matt Bigland, croaning about how he&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Getting paid \u00a36.80 to wait on tables of rich ladies and their dogs.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s entertaining for the first few plays but quickly becomes tiresome and silly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Dinosaur Pile Up - Back Foot (Official Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7ZQytOqmCk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their efforts are further hindered by self-indulgent acoustic guitar segments, especially on <em>&#8216;Round The Bend&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>and &#8216;<em>Celebrity Mansions&#8217;<\/em>. These dynamic shifts in styles might be appealing for some fans, but they don&#8217;t have much substance behind them, other than a half-hearted spread of modern life fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>To<strong> Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/strong>&#8216;s credit, it&#8217;s likely a breath of fresh air for them to create an album with a playful demeanour compared to the rest of their discography, which veered constantly into doom and gloom. The raw guitar build ups that feel like a kick in the teeth are still on certain cuts here, a staple that set the band apart in their early days. They continue to be hard hitting on <em>&#8216;Pouring Gasoline&#8217;<\/em> and <em>&#8216;K-West&#8217;, <\/em>trading moody energy for positivity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their headstrong &#8220;no fucks given&#8221; approach, <em>&#8216;Celebrity Mansions<\/em>&#8216; will undoubtedly polarise their long term listeners and confuse newcomers.\u00a0 If this was entirely their intention, then their work here is done.<\/p>\n<p>2\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Celebrity Mansions\u2019<\/em>\u00a0by <strong>Dinosaur Pile-Up <\/strong>is out 7th June on <strong>Parlophone Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/strong>\u00a0links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinosaurpileup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dinosaurpileup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DINOSAURPILEUP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dpuofficial\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Ashwin Bhandari (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giveupox17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GIVEUPOX17<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;Celebrity Mansions&#8217; will undoubtedly polarise their long term listeners and confuse newcomers&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":83641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,15315,17149,1385,17148],"class_list":["post-83617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-ashwin-bhandari","tag-celebrity-mansons","tag-dinosaur-pile-up","tag-parlaphone-records"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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