Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

:'-)

Xpost - Martyn probably makes it for some of his post-peak work like Grace and Danger (which I love). One World has some perfectly appropriate songs but feels a bit too willfully eclectic?

I've only gone as far as One World so excited for the other two recommendations. "Sweet Little Mystery" strikes me as a perfect sophistipop song

"Grace and Danger" is actually just one album btw. Stuff after that might also be good but that's as far as I have gone.

Yeah "Sweet Little Mystery" is the song from One World I was thinking of, "Small Hours" for avant-sophisto.

Hang on....Grace and Danger is his peak!

one world is my favorite martyn record, it feels like it's going in every direction at once. "small hours" crushes me

Hang on....Grace and Danger is his peak!

― yugi ex, Monday, November 23, 2015 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I should have put "peak" in inverted commas. I think it's fabulous but it's not (or doesn't seem to be) feted in the way that a lot of the 70s albums are - also meant to say "Sweet Little Mystery" is the song from Grace and Danger I was thinking of first and foremost.

Ah, I've been listening to the "Bless the Weather" comp and looking at my favorites from there, it would be a tough choice btwn Grace & Danger or One World. I've never seen a John Martyn thread on ilx! The vocal part on "Small Hours" is basically heaven.

One World contains some truly awesome compass point aqua funk

"Big Muff" is amazing and completely singular but (in part because of that) I don't think I'd describe it as sophistipop.

I also listen to Inside Out heaps and heaps, which strangely doesn't seem to get talked about very much.

"Big Muff"

Well, that too.

Danish band Liss have a sophistipop thing going, more on "Always" than "Try", but "Try" is great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXPPHhs6nk

Does Thomas Dolby fit the sophisti-pop handle? The Flat Earth is pretty damn fine. It's Immaterial's Song is excellent, too.

(Thomas Dolby also produced three Prefab Sprout records, including Steve McQueen)

Not quite as luxurious and sophisticated as Kaputt or Avalon, but still quite enjoyable: China Crisis Flaunt the Imperfection and What Price Paradise.

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

Just discovered Gigi Masin. I'm only on the album opener from "Talk To The Sea" (2015), but I'm already impressed. Echoes of Tea In The Sahara-era Sting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iq6vNW6Bh4

ooh, that's lovely. good share!

so i picked up a shift last night at my bar on "college tuesday"...put this on and got surprising reactions. Lots of "who's this?" and to top it off Song for America actually had people dancing and sexy girl dancing. Although there were a few odd looks during the whole animals...deaths embrace thing. Meanwhile I was doing lots of pelvic thrusts behind the bar. Im sure this is exactly what Bejar was going for.

― Beardie you disappoint me (chrisv2010), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:14 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post still haunts me whenever i listen to this record

China Crisis Flaunt the Imperfection is great! good recommendations itt

Danish singer/songwriter CV Jørgensen's late masterpiece Sjælland has more of a 90s vibe, but not far off

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

2)Al Stewart- Year of the Cat

― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, November 17, 2015 1:36 PM (3 weeks ago)

had somehow never heard this song/album but holy shit it would fit right in on kaputt

You've never heard Year of the Cat? Must be a youngster!

i wouldnt really associate year of the cat with kaputt except for maybe the title track, the rest is too earnest and folky to sound like destroyer ever

Year of the Cat is great, and a good point of reference - Kaputt is (among other things) a perfect mix of sophistipop and yacht rock, Al Stewart's a good yacht rock example

i've always thought of al stewart as being the precursor to stuff like the decemberists, okkervil river, that sort of earnest high-concept storytelling rock, rather than the cynical smooth dudes that take after yacht rock. he's kind of an oddball in rock history in that way, probably why he's been largely forgotten while a lot of his peers get canonized

point taken

kaputt

not sure if i should be embarrassed by how much of spotify's prefabbed "Late Night Indie" playlist overlaps with my own playlists

kaputt

― ciderpress, Friday, May 27, 2016 10:50 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was thinking about this album just yesterday, and how it's just about that time of year

http://springfieldop.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/StCat_ToTheServentOf_God_IMG_0121.jpg

holy cow, Destroyer is playing here on Friday??

I think his current tour is just a solo acoustic one

fine by me!

show's at a tiny-ass campus venue, and, other than bejar himself, i will probably be the oldest person there

that sounds perfect

11/01/16 Milwaukee, WI Colectivo Coffee Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/02/16 Chicago, IL Art Institute of Chicago Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/03/16 Madison, WI The Sett (University of Wisconsin) Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/05/16 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/06/16 London, ON The Aeolian Performing Arts Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/07/16 Halifax, NS The Seahorse Tavern Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/08/16 Quebec City, QC Le Cercle Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/10/16 Hamilton, ON Mills Hardware Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/11/16 Saskatoon, SK Amigo's Solo performance Add to google calendar
11/12/16 Calgary, AB Festival Hall Solo performance Add to google calendar

definitely an interesting choice of tour dates

weird -- the show here isn't on there

(it may not ~actually~ be open to the public)

thought we had a "sounds like kaputt" thread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D8L40-WuIM

roxy mentioned above but this one was sounding especially Kaputt-y last week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTyNcmiXm0

Avalon was the OG inspiration mentioned in all the interviews / press releases iirc, and Kaputt was actually my way into Avalon

beautiful track

Always thought Lindsey Buckingham's Trouble had some Kaputt like elements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO1sQPs3U8k

def.

Perhaps Mirage scratches a bit of the same itch - ethereal vibe with focus on melody and percussion

Buckingham track is smooth as hell

the laziest river is soo good

yup

you’re a permanent figure of jacked up sorrow
I want you to love me

posters going ham on the sophisti-pop revivals the last couple days, I see

Time of the season?

I really really like the production on this one.