destroyer

looking at stylus makes me sad.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 February 2009 06:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Your Blues, of course. His best collection of songs and no other album in the world sounds like it.

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 06:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

"it's gonna take an airplane" has one of the most unforgettable melodies in years. but i still can't get over the lyrics on streethawk

― kamerad, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 06:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

yer blues

― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

Tough to argue with Owen, but I might just go Rubies or Streethawk. I'll give it some time.

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

rubies or streethawk,yeah

― Zeno, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

going with city of daughters just becuase "no cease fires" is one of my favorite songs ever

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Detroit Rock City

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

streethawk is probably his best work

― cutty, Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:37 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― cutty, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

but i just voted rubies

― cutty, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

and i'm listening to your blues

― cutty, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

also i just recently found out that kranky artist LOSCIL is the drummer for destroyer. impressed.

― cutty, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

streethawk is a better album, but i think "rubies" is my favorite song

― 69, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

partial to streethawk, but it might just be because i heard it first. and it is admittedly awesome.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

This Night ... Could've voted for any of these, though. Pretty consistent discography there!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

"the bad arts" on streethawk maybe my favorite destroyer moment. the joy division referencing "you've got the spirit, don't less the feeling" is so great.

― cutty, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

so are there any trouble in dreams fans? who think it stands with the best of the prior albums?

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

first sentence should include the word 'here'

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

So, where are "God Of Thunder", "Beth" and "Detroit Rock City"? ;)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 19:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

here, my geir
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=19569

― kamerad, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

"so are there any trouble in dreams fans? who think it stands with the best of the prior albums?"

i know that i love it but sadly it's still the first thing i've heard from him so i can't vote.

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 23:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

*only thing

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 23:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

Man, Trouble In Dreams sucked huh? I mean, in comparison to most of his other shit.

― NewBeefLover, Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

"blue flower blue flame" and "favourite year" are so good.

― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, those ARE good. Two. Maybe 3-4?

― NewBeefLover, Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and City Of Daughters is sooo gooood. Not as celebrated as Streethawk, surprising!

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

Many of these posts look like Cryptic Crossword hints.

In destroyed rubies: it felt like a kiss. (6)
Purification found in scarlet heifer. (5)

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

bruise
lethe

― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2009 02:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

yes.
nope, but it's not your fault

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Thursday, 5 February 2009 08:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

redox? detox?

― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2009 14:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

No, I effed it up.

I got distracted thinking about them last night, trying to find solutions to "Famous? Toronto painter in your pocket" and "An actor's revenge: yields blue blood" but that's the backwards way of writing them.

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

"trouble in dreams" wasn't bad at all, just a bit forgettable unfortunately. not as strong throughout as he's been in the past, though "blue flower blue flame" is all kinds of fantastic and there were a couple i liked too. no matter what, there will always be a place for dan bejar in my music listening world

― k3vin k., Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

rubies

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

also i just recently found out that kranky artist LOSCIL is the drummer for destroyer. impressed.

there are Loscil "remixes" on side 4 of the Rubies vinyl. (I don't like em though)

― dmr, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

I voted for Streethawk, for me it's between that and Rubies with This Night third

― dmr, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

again any destroyer fan who hasn't heard "no cease fires" should do so immediately

― k3vin k., Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

partial to streethawk, but it might just be because i heard it first.

yeah that's pretty much where I'm at. "The Sublimation Hour" was the first song of his I ever heard (fuckin awesome)

I should make a playlist of all his songs from the New Pornographers records

― dmr, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

queen of languages on thief is also quite the tune in my opinion. i vote for this night though. hey snow white is probably my favorite destroyer song.

― stingy, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Your Blues, John.

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

Your Blues, Michael.

― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'll go with Rubies because it has two of my favorite songs of all time.
For me the correct order would be

Rubies
Your Blues
Streethawk
This Night
City of Daughters

I cant rate the rest because to be honest I still havent heard them with enough attention.

― Moka, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 13 February 2009 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 14 February 2009 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Bay of Pigs" is the longest of Destroyer songs, and Destroyer's first foray into ambient disco. The song was recorded throughout the winter of 2009 with Destroyer collaborators/members John Collins and David Carswell at JCDC Studio in Vancouver. "Bay of Pigs" is an account of the 1961 American invasion of Cuba. The music for "Ravers" was played entirely on analogue synthesizer, and recorded in April 2009. It explores some of the more meditative realms of 20th Century classical composition. The song is a casual rumination on parties, political parties, madness and suffering (for one's art).

― cutty, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

Destroyer's first foray into ambient disco

― cutty, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

Destroyer's first foray into ambient disco

― cutty, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

The music for "Ravers" was played entirely on analogue synthesizer, and recorded in April 2009. It explores some of the more meditative realms of 20th Century classical composition.

not sure if this means it will be more or less boring than trouble in dreams. actually tbh i love that album. dan bejar can do no wrong though, so this will atleast be pretty awesome.

― samosa gibreel, Friday, 31 July 2009 01:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

going to see him tonight. supposedly he's playing all alone up there on stage. only other time i've seen him live was when frog eyes backed him. pretty stoked. i hope to enjoy this first foray into ambient disco sold by some all star moves

― kamerad, Friday, 31 July 2009 01:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

bay of pigs is amazing.

― cutty, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

I wonder if (Detail) means the entire song's just gonna be a taken from the cutting room floor, one second clip of someone pressing a single key on a keyboard

― markers, Saturday, 16 October 2010 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

Destroyer, the wordy, glammed-up project led by New Pornographer Dan Bejar, will release their ninth album, Kaputt, on January 25 via Merge.

In a press release, Bejar lists off 22 things we might want to know about the album. That oblique list is below, as is the album's tracklist.

Bejar: "Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango in Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what's to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… The LinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…"

Thought you all might be interested

― iago g., Saturday, 16 October 2010 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today…

cosign

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 16 October 2010 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

don't wanna be a hater but I just don't get this. not that Trouble in Dreams sucks or anything, but it just doesn't hang together as an album for me, and I don't think there are enough awesome songs (there are a couple!) to make up for that.

It took a very long time for Trouble in Dreams to click for me, but it finally did. This Night, I gotta be honest, it just seems interminable to me. Some good songs & then some that just go on forever. It & Your Blues are the weakest points in the D.B. catalog for me.

― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 October 2010 00:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

Oh I had this moment earlier this year when I decided Your Blues was a perfect circle.

I've had long, long battles over the best Destroyer record, with friends and with self, but from Thief on everything is golden in its own way so why sweat it.

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 October 2010 00:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

Fuck, I just imagined Bejar singing lyrics over Boys & Girls.

It was fucking awesome.

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 October 2010 05:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

It took a very long time for Trouble in Dreams to click for me, but it finally did.

This Night, I gotta be honest, it just seems interminable to me. Some good songs & then some that just go on forever

― Our society and culture has put rock music on the backburner (bernard snowy), Sunday, 17 October 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh also: it's sort of a recurrent theme throughout Bejar's work, but I feel like there's a particular emphasis in This Night on the limitations of language -- all the wordless choruses, lines about "Deciphering what it means / When the band goes 'Doo rah, doo rah, doo rah, doo rah'"; I even read "Here Comes The Night" this way, interpreting the "night" in a line like "Don't look now, angel, here comes the night! (Ba-baaa, baaa, babababababa)" as a sort of absolute wordless darkness, desolation and loneliness, an emotional state that can't be conveyed (or exorcised) by language. but this might be a personal hangup.

― Our society and culture has put rock music on the backburner (bernard snowy), Sunday, 17 October 2010 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

so, Kaputt is going to be a "saxophone and soft jazz driven ode to an America that doesn’t seem to exist anymore."

this guy doesnt like it so much:

http://ventvox.com/tag/destroyer-kaputt-review/

― Zeno, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

i don't listen to jazz, and i don't like saxophone so much, so my anticipation level goes down, down,down...

― Zeno, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

Kinda want to beat that reviewer up

This album will rule

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

because?

― Zeno, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

Because Bejar is one of the few people that could pull off such a horrendous sounding concept. Really anxious to hear this, tbh.

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

i didn't like Your Blues so much, but i can see where youre coming from

― Zeno, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

i have a demo of suicide demo for kara walker and its pretty brilliant. it kinda bobs along at the same pace, doing the same thing. in the same vain as shooting rockets/bay of pigs/grief point i guess. the main instruments appear to be a bass guitar, a broken keyboard and a drum machine. then it finishes with a fake saxophone solo. looking forward to this album.

― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

mp3: http://www.mbvmusic.com/2010/11/23/mp3-destroyer-chinatown/30569
sounds good to me, but i really love Your Blues, so this is a welcome return to that kinda more synthetic sound. sounds a little looser, spacier than Your Blues. Balearic, maybe?

― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 15:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

uhhh this is amazing

― underplayed junior boys remixes I have forgotten were on my comp (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

brb firing up my yacht

― underplayed junior boys remixes I have forgotten were on my comp (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

This is amazing.
Also in that it's amazing without the zingers
Which I'm sure we'll be getting to by track 2?

― PEAVEY Ó))) (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

well, at least it doesn't have fretless bass all over it.

― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

that song sounds like lotta love.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

the record is a killer.

― chromecassettes, Friday, 26 November 2010 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

This record is fantastic

― The Dutch of Dukes, Friday, 26 November 2010 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

I really want to hear this thing.

― PEAVEY Ó))) (Ówen P.), Friday, 26 November 2010 16:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

^^cosign

also, lol@yr display name

― 'The Road'(a hundred less-than signs)'Taken' (bernard snowy), Friday, 26 November 2010 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

that song is ... alright. the fake sax is a bit hard to take. but Your Blues is my least fave Destroyer record. (still listen to it from time to time though.)

― dmr, Friday, 26 November 2010 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

otoh I have listened to "Chinatown" 4 times today so there must be something there. either that or I am trying too hard.

― dmr, Friday, 26 November 2010 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

i dont hear a fake sax? i dig the flugelhorn

cant decide if like this okay or really like it

― challop and a muff (deej), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

fake sax or real sax or real flugelhorn it is kinda syrupy sounding to me. like that little run at 1:14 sounds like late night cable tv or something.

― dmr, Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

30 seconds in, and this rules.

― Domingo Halliburton (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

i really want to hear it too! i haven't been interested since your blues, but man, bejar was my fucking MAN in like 2003-2004. not to be a dick, but that's the truth. i fell into different wormholes.

― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 November 2010 06:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

still, city of daughters isn't that bad! what's wrong with you people.

― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 November 2010 06:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

god, i had forgotten how much i love him. sorry, i'm just looking at tracklists and lyrics are coming back to me. and whoo.

― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 November 2010 06:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

Fuck I can't wait to hear this. I agree with Owen, kinda can't wait for the zingers to return.

― altered boners (rennavate), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

I was blasting Rubies on the way home from the girlfriend's just now, makes me so excited for this.

― altered boners (rennavate), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

question for anyone who's heard Kaputt: did this song make it on the album?

― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

question for anyone who's heard Kaputt: did this song make it on the album?

No.

Don't want to say too much, but the whole album is along the lines of Chinatown and the Bay Of Pigs single from last year, which appears in slightly truncated form as the album closer. It's all about the soft synths, female (gospel-ish) backing vox, lots of trumpet and sax solos, very jazz-pop with a slight disco feel. Very synthetic in comparison to Rubies/ Trouble In Dreams, but not as far removed from those two as, say, Your Blues. Reminds me very much of those 80s bands like Prefab Sprout and even Deacon Blue, cheesy but still powerful. Probably a better album than 90% of this year's best.

― Moogle, Saturday, 27 November 2010 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

Based on "Chinatown," I'm even more psyched for this album that I was before (and I was pretty psyched before) - Bejar can do no wrong in my eyes.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 27 November 2010 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

waht it sounds like Prefab Sprout? so stoked now.

― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

is this dude from england?

― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

wancouwer

― PEAVEY Ó))) (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

ah okay he's really putting on an accent huh? is this typical of destroyer? i thought it would sound way different than this.

i think i like it.

― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

i guess i thought destroyer was like smog or something

― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

nah destroyer's on some erudite glam shit

he calls it "european blues" which a pretty apt descriptor

― champagne for my t-friends (Edward III), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

huh, i don't know how i feel about this

i'm pretty sure he is talking about Vanity from Vanity 6 on one song and calls her a "negress"

― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

o_O

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

video for Kaputt is pretty cool; babes + surreal stuff
http://vimeo.com/18442047

― gr8080, Thursday, 6 January 2011 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh we're talking abt it on the other thread

― gr8080, Thursday, 6 January 2011 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

destroyer covering gorkys zygotic mynci! yay!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/destroyer-covers-gorkys-zygotic-mynci,83550/

― all the worlds a stage and kitty's just stepped into the spotlight (cajunsunday), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

love this new order cover too. i don't remember destroyer ever doing a cover before 2012.

― all the worlds a stage and kitty's just stepped into the spotlight (cajunsunday), Saturday, 11 August 2012 14:36 (9 months ago) Permalink