"write your english music, run free" is as self-consciously clever as good music gets
― hot knives, wind was blowin' (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
european blues
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
This band that I am going on tour with is different from the one that toured last year for Kaputt,
Interesting, because the press release line, via Merge and others, is that this is the Kaputt band. Who is different?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
how was the sound at brooklyn masonic? the shows i've seen there have sounded pretty poor.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really understand what separates 'english music' from 'song for america'. i feel like if anything kaputt is more self-conscious. or at least more difficult to parse or reduce, which seems 'cleverer' to me.
― thomp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it sounded great. it's the first time I've been to the venue so I don't have anything to compare it to. a friend said the sound was much better than the last time she was there.
the show was excellent imo. would have liked to hear English Music or something else from Streethawk or This Night, but we did get three tracks from Rubies (European Oils, Looter's Follies, Rubies) that sounded amazing. better than on the Rubies tour. horn section gave it this collapsing, wasted cabaret vibe that I was really into. Looter's Follies was probably the show highlight for me.
the show opened with Your Blues (which starts out a cappella, pretty striking), there was also a new track that was listed on the setlist as Heartswarms
from Kaputt I think they played the title track, Downtown, Kara Walker, Blue Eyes, and Savage Night
Bejar was the most comfortable and non-stage-fright-y as I've ever seen him I think.
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Heartswarm is a Swan Lake song.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
ah, thanks. I've only heard Beast Moans, not the second one.
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/tv/youtube/18-city-of-music/310-destroyer-performs-libbys-first-sunrise/
― just sayin, Sunday, 5 August 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
Cool thx.
― Zing Can Really Hang You Up the Most (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
i'm actually a little embarrassed by how much i liked that
― catbus otm (gbx), Sunday, 5 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
literally watching the end of the party through smoke
― ○ (gr8080), Sunday, 5 August 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
time itself is unable to decay the classic from this album
― omar little, Monday, 6 August 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
was just listening to part of this today. still so good
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 August 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
This is pretty much an Al Stewart album. Not bad.
Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN3-0zbJrgU
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't listened to this since EOY lists last year.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
still love this album, pretty much all of it. and uh yeah, otm about al stewart!
― tylerw, Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
holds up well
Time Passages >>> Year of the Cat
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Al is awesome. so is Kaputt, still. still listening to it tooooooons and recent live show was fantastic.
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
i had never heard of al stewart before, but thx thread!
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Shintaro Sakamoto's "How to Live With a Phantom" kinda has a Kaputt thing goin on, I like it. Solo record by the ex lead singer of Yura Yura Teikoku on Other Music's record label.
― dmr, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
not as world-weary though. but mad smooth.
― dmr, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
kaputt is still so fucking good
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
yup, definitely one of my favorite records from the last years. saw them live in a small club a few months ago and it was so good.is there a new record on the way ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 24 January 2013 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
i was ripped on dope, you were a ray of sunshine
― markers, Friday, 19 July 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
New EP incoming
http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2013/09/destroyer-announces-five-spanish-songs-ep-for-november-release/
― groovypanda, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
yes !I would have preferred original material though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
excited for anything this dude does but seems kinda weird
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Destroyer will embark on a solo acoustic tour in November, and tickets are selling fast. This will be your last chance to see Destroyer live until 2015! A full list of dates is below.
if i'm only in to kaputt, is this worth going to see?
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
yes because you should be into more than kaputt
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
for you -- probably not? hard to say what it will be until he starts doing the shows.
I'm a fan of pretty much everything he's done though ... think I'm gonna go to the Bowery Ballroom show.
I'd imagine if he plays anything from Kaputt it would be in a radically different form.
― dmr, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
just checked and its almost sold out, but is also walking distance from my house... i will keep you guys updated.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
going
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
When is it?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Oh I see
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
kaputt's such an incredible record (my favourite of the decade) that I'm scared to listen to anything else he's ever done. Am I cutting my nose off to spite my face here?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
his other work is not really like kaputt in terms of mood or atmosphere but i mean, if you like his voice, his humor, his lyricism, there's plenty to like. the malkmus comparisons used to get thrown around a lot more often but it really is true in a lot of ways
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
where do I go next? shout out an album and I'll grab it.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
"destroyer's rubies" is the consensus choice i think, or at least it was until kaputt came out
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 September 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
I feel like Your Blues is the most tonally similar to Kaputt. It's from 03 or 04 but a lot of the ideas in it are ones he returns to on Kaputt, and it's the least "indie rock"-feeling albums of his the pre-Kaputt work.
― Clay, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
None of his other records are mixed to "fighting form" imo. Kind of never seemed necessary to my ears, his lines have always been too good to need Kaputt's sheen. "Your Blues" is my favourite but it sounds like a Kevin Blechdom record. "Rubies" is pretty classic, great vocal delivery.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
I have to say that Streethawk and This Night are my two favorites behind Kaputt, which I guess isn't consensus but check them both out.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 13 September 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
Another vote for Streethawk
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 September 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
Kaputt #1
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 13 September 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
kaputt > streethawk
― zingon grammar (Treeship), Friday, 13 September 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
Streethawk and Rubies.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 13 September 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah Rubies is great.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Friday, 13 September 2013 10:07 (ten years ago) link
Such a great sound to Rubies, awesome guitar tone, great drums. All his records sound really good, even if the midi one is a bit weird.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 13 September 2013 10:40 (ten years ago) link
I'd say Streethawk, Your Blues, Rubies and Kaputt are the essential Destroyer albums. Pretty much every album (except maybe for his very early stuff, which I never really got into) has its moments though.
If you like Kaputt, check out "Shooting Rockets" off of Troube in Dreams. Seems like an early attempt at the kind of stuff he would end up doing on Kaputt.
― silverfish, Friday, 13 September 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
Rubies is the only other one besides Kaputt that I've really enjoyed. Haven't really been able to connect with the others.
― Moodles, Friday, 13 September 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link