Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

i really don't think this album is *that* radical a shift for bejar. i think he's ultimately like leonard cohen, where his own persona dominates, no matter what musical setting you put him in.

xp nope, it was like opening pandora's box for me. pretty good marketing innit

Two bass players in that performance! One on either side of the drums.

i didn't really like the tv performance.

it sucks--he's not good live, i fear (saw them live once)

the music on this album should exist only on this album and never be reproduced ever

yer nuts, horn shit was awesome imo

bejar painfully shy afterwards, was kind of endearing

i saw dan b when frog eyes backed him on the your blues tour. great show. he bowed after every song . . . rarely seen someone so appreciative of his audience

I like how Bejar seems sorta nervous at first

he is crazy uncomfortable onstage and often gets drunk to fight it. when he plays w/ New Pornographers usually comes out to sing carrying a pint.

i didn't really like the tv performance.

I'm the total opposite, wasn't really thinking of going to Webster Hall in April but now I'm gonna see if there's still tickets. My wife can heckle (still hates this record).

Haha, yeah last time I saw the New Pornos and Dan was there he was absolutely tanked. I couldn't believe that they played, and he made it through, "A Testament To Youth In Verse" and "Chump Change."

ecch I really dislike 'rubies', not sure about 'your blues'. What are the good new pornos songs w/ bejar?

all of them, but particularly "ballad of a comeback kid," "myriad harbor," "broken beads," both "jackies," yeah, all of them

wasn't really thinking of going to Webster Hall in April but now I'm gonna see if there's still tickets. My wife can heckle (still hates this record).

I saw him on the rubies tour and didn't really think I'd ever need to see him again... but I'm reconsidering now. my wife makes sardonic pet shop boys comparisons whenever I put on kaputt.

That's funny, I can't listen to it without thinking of Neil Tennant.

ime he is charming & extremely likeable not partic uncomfortable live and i saw him doing a solo acoustic show?

Laziest River is amazing! I've never liked destroyer but this record is something else. definitely not just a bonus song.

everyone seems to think he's totally tanked during NPs shows, but I think this is just sort of an act? at least to some extent. maybe i'm wrong.

Ken Jennings is a fan:

Favorite record: man that is tough. I'm listening to the new Destroyer record as I type this. When the laws are changed I want to marry Dan Bejar.

!!!!

I don't know why this makes me so happy

haha

but what about Watson

more of a Kraftwerk fan maybe

that's so awesome

Think Watson's jam is "Popcorn."

When KJ was in the midst of his run, I couldn't stand him. Now, I kinda love him.

Oy. Sold out for March 31 in Toronto. I don’t think he sold out even on the night of last time through (in the same venue).

about the googleganger

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/03/21/110321ta_talk_sanneh

lol @ accompanying cartoon

http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rID=33127

<3 'certain things u oughtta know' with the kaputt band treatment
cant wait for the show next week!!

yeah that session sounded nice. trumpets on painter in your pocket! hope he comes to my neck of the woods with this band.

is it me or did this get completely ignored by the uk indie mags? shame. guess the chances he'll ever come play live here are close to 0%

Yeah, it doesn't seem like Kaputt even got a release in the UK. I haven't seen it in any shops and the price from online retailers started and has stayed pretty high. Not sure if he has played here before at all. His profile seems largely non-existent in Scotland at least.

How could Brits NOT love Destroyer? Seems odd...cannot WAIT to see them at Webster Hall, oh yeahhhhhhhh

the last two albums got fairly luke warm reviews. you know, the I-didn't-actually-listen-it type reviews. but this one got nowt!

Bejar the 'artist' sounds like a dickhead:

For one project, “Get Lost!,” he replaced New York City subway maps with versions that had a slightly different coastline and no names or markings—he wanted to evoke the city as it might have looked in 1609, when Henry Hudson sailed past.

I'm sure the family of five from Lincoln, Nebraska who'd been saving for five years to go see the friggin' Statue of Liberty or some shit really appreciates your 'art project,' asshole.

Mandatory Bohemia fuck off

yeah and I'm sure nobody in New York would give them directions on how to get there either

lol that poor family of five

lol "art"

lol new york city

god, i'd be creeped out by that dude if i was bejar (the destroyer bejar).

i'm imagining the two of them in a fight to the death and i have to shoot the fake dan but they both keep claiming they're the real dan. don't know what to do.

this record would be pretty dope if he could get through an entire song w/out dropping a toe curling lyric

I'm interviewing Bejar soon. Any questions you guys want asked?

"Prefab Sprout: Classic or Dud?"

please ask him what his thoughts on the ken jennings quote are

I'm interviewing Bejar soon. Any questions you guys want asked?

which one looool???

Why are you so obsessed with MELODY?! Oops, wrong thread, sorry!

so apparently the laziest river instrumental stuff wasnt written by bejar but by one of the band members? or so ive been told, not that i can find anything about it on the internet

ok its ted bois

maybe everyone know that? now i want to hear a ted bois album

That extra side [a suite entitled “The Laziest River”] was recorded independently of all the other songs on Kaputt. The piano player in Destroyer [Ted Bois], doesn’t actually play on [the CD version of] Kaputt. He took all the photos, and he did the artwork for the two Destroyer EPs before the album, but he’s not playing because there’s no piano on the record. But yeah, he pretty much composed that 20-minute side in its entirety and recorded it, and it’s really kind of a feat. I mean, I’m really really into it. I sing on it a little bit, in the middle.

http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2011/03/18/extended-qanda-with-dan-bejar-of-destroyer

that song rules