INVENTED ROCK & ROLL 2/5/2001 Building on the harmony-heavy folk-rock

Building on the harmony-heavy folk-rock sound of the Byrds and Crosby

they appear to push one another to the limits of humorously witty wordplay

Matt Belyea (handclaps)

With pal Billy Corgan as an unofficial consultant and Soundgarden producer Michael Beinhorn manning the boards

and some '60's flashbacks (witness the percussion on "Anti Pope"--surely there's a Stones classic in their somewhere

INVENTED ROCK & ROLL 2/5/2001 Building on the harmony-heavy folk-rockIn the '90s, the Dwarves built a career out of pretending to be the scuzziest punk band in the known universe, but these days they're content to play the bad taste card for a laugh while tearing up their guitars with the polished attack of a SoCal pop punk outfit. 2014's The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll often feels more like a comedy album than hardcore punk, especially on tunes like "Trailer Trash," "Fun to Try," and "Sluts of the USA," so clearly