Dyslexicon is the second and final album by the Philadelphia grunge band Dandelion, released in 1995.
The band promoted the album by touring with Quicksand; they also played the 1995 Lollapalooza festival. Its first single, "Weird-Out", reached No. 14 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Critical reception
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." 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."
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." 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."
Track listing All tracks by Dandelion
"Pass the Stone" – 2:45 "Weird-Out" – 3:41 "Trailer Park Girl" – 3:16 "What a Drag" – 3:03 "Super Cool" – 4:31 "Retard" – 2:30 "False Alarm" – 2:00 "Tapped" – 5:17 "Whatever" – 1:47 "Snow Job" – 4:16 "Viva Kneval" – 3:44 "Melon from Heaven" – 4:51
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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