| Dyslexicon | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dandelion |
| Cover: | Dyslexicon.jpg |
| Released: | August 1, 1995 |
| Genre: | Grunge |
| Length: | 41:41 |
| Label: | Ruffhouse[1] |
| Producer: | Phil Nicolo[2] |
| Prev Title: | I Think I'm Gonna Be Sick |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
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]
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."[7]
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."[8] 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."[9]
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.