destroyer

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

Nothing to discuss. Reporter asked a question about Taylor Swift, Bejar makes it clear he doesn't listen to her and has no plans.

lol wrong thread

Yeah, less about the Swift thing than general anticipation of the new record. But Diamond Dave set me straight on that

I heard "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart for the first time today snd just, damn. D sounds just like him! And the instrumentation and progression were spot on too.

mmh has actually been mentioned on the quite active kaputt thread
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

not much love for trouble in dreams in this poll! great alb imo

yeah that's a good one (but I still would vote for Rubies over anything else by a large margin)

I'm not suprised (by the results of this poll that I've certainly seen before, lol) -- 'Rubies' got so much love on ILM when it was released vs. everyone everywhere being kinda down on 'Dreams' (check Bejar's riffing on "Grief Point") -- In the end, though, I played 'em both out, along with the three before (still haven't heard Thief, not crazy about CoD)

AS an aside, I and my wife both LOVE Grief Point.

yeah but like... you're self-loathing english on the mediterranean, innit?

Bejar featuring on a new Sandro Perri track. Very nice!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/sandro-perri-everybodys-paris-pt-iii-ft-dan-bejar/

that's great!

thanks for the heads up

Seeing him do a solo show at the end of the month. Interested to see how the lush sounding stuff from his recent records comes across sans band.

I saw him do a solo show last night, it was cool. he played songs from all over his career - at least one from every album except Ideas for Songs and City of Daughters and also one new one called I think 'Crimson Tide' that was reminiscent of the first section of Rubies and a lyrical sequel to The Laziest River.

hope he manages to bring the full band out here some day.

https://mergerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-merge-group-plays-heroes

live album of a merge supergroup doing a "heroes" album tribute, featuring bejar on lead vocals. it sounds great

This sounds great!!!