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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.

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.

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

It was fucking awesome.

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

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.

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/

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

Kinda want to beat that reviewer up

This album will rule

because?

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

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

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.

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?

uhhh this is amazing

brb firing up my yacht

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

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

that song sounds like lotta love.

the record is a killer.

This record is fantastic

I really want to hear this thing.

^^cosign

also, lol@yr display name

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.)

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

i dont hear a fake sax? i dig the flugelhorn

cant decide if like this okay or really like it

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.

30 seconds in, and this rules.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC7QBf17X8I

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.

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.

waht it sounds like Prefab Sprout? so stoked now.

is this dude from england?

wancouwer

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.

i guess i thought destroyer was like smog or something

nah destroyer's on some erudite glam shit

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

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"

o_O

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

oh we're talking abt it on the other thread

destroyer covering gorkys zygotic mynci! yay!

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR85bAxCX6M

Surprised no one seems to be talking about this interview/new track? http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9651-accidental-pop-a-conversation-with-destroyers-dan-bejar/

we r on the kaputt thread

Ah, OK