Also, I came across this, which is interesting: http://www.danielbejar.com/
that's pretty funny
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/googleganger1.jpg
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/googleganger2.jpg
― if nothing else this thread will result in some great display names (Edward III), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/googleganger3.jpg
don't think i've ever written this on ilx before but o_O
― tylerw, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
It sounds a lot like the main riff from "Enola Gay" by OMD.
haha otm. knew i recognized that from somewhere
savage night at the opera is the best track by far imo
― dmr, Saturday, 18 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yo i heard a rumor p4k is gonna give this joint a 10.
― Mordy, Friday, December 17, 2010 7:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
LOLZ don't start this again. There was the same rumor floating around about Rubies. But this is possibly better than Rubies...
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Unless of course, it's an actual rumor.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, obv I was making a poorly formed Rubies joek
― Mordy, Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
That's what I thought lolz.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Saturday, 18 December 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
'too morose to be yacht' otm
― The Macallan 18 Year, Saturday, 18 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
man i love this guy
― k3vin k., Sunday, 19 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the first album in a really really long time that i've had on permanent repeat
doesn't mean it's perfect obv (even to me) but damn it's ear wormy
― kanellos (gbx), Thursday, 23 December 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i won't and i never will
― james fondleboy (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I WRITE POETRY FOR MYSELF I WRITE POETRY FOR MYSELF
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard a rumour that NME is going to give this 7 out of 10 or they're not going to review it at all.
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Thursday, 23 December 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't walk away, you can't walk away
― Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 23 December 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard your record, it's alright
― Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 23 December 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
sound smash hits melody maker nmeall sounds like a dream to me
― dmr, Thursday, 23 December 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
fool child, you're never gonna make itnew york city just wants to see you nakedand they will
― Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 23 December 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
can't wait 'til us norms can hear dis
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
in the meantime, guess ill just go listen to "Chinatown" for the hundred and thirty-first time...
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
although i got very little help finding this(!) from my ilm colleagues when i expressed this same plaint, bernard, if you type in the artist name and album title into google and look at what the search engine fills in, in terms of frequent searches, you can indeed download it with "fiery" alacrity. En-yoy!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
oh huh, for some reason I thought it hadn't leaked yet
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, title track ishttp://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7476/amazingn.png
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
poor in love is v v pretty
― dmr, Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
for me, typical destroyer album, great music but the voice and lyrics bug me to death
― the distance between me and a sackful is gonna be like 0 inches (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Plaza Trinidad", in particular, is beautiful, like an angry drunk jumping onstage during a broadway musical
actually a pretty good description of Bejar's role in a New Pornographers concert
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
you're welcome, Bernard!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I won't and I never willI won't and I never willI won't and I never willI won't and I never willBlue eyes
― lenonsense (Clay), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
― the distance between me and a sackful is gonna be like 0 inches (rip van wanko), Thursday, December 23, 2010 11:31 AM (5 hours ago) it may help to realize that you don't actually like destroyer
― james fondleboy (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
FOUR MORE YEARSFOUR MORE YEARSFOUR HUNDRED MORE YEARS OF THIS SHIT FUCK IT!
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
he kinda repeats stuff a lot on this
― kanellos (gbx), Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
also seeing those lyrics in caps and with an exclamation point makes it seem like they're from a completely different song.
― kanellos (gbx), Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah he repeats a lot of stuff, but it works beautifully. That's like a running theme through the disc, tied into the the horns and trumpets always repeatedly showing up in tracks.
And yeah it should be more like: four more years, four more years, fourhundredmoreyearsofthisshitfuckit
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of drug references!
― I am a man and I use the typewriter method (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 December 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
This is pretty much an Al Stewart album. Not bad.
― President Keyes, Friday, 24 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^^ this makes me want the disc asap (tho i'd be happy if bejar kept making homages to mid-70s david bowie, too).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 24 December 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"This is pretty much an Al Stewart album. Not bad."
Someone here is "in the know", even though what they've said is both an overstatement and an under simplification.
― chromecassettes, Friday, 24 December 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEqUe8hbDTM
― chromecassettes, Friday, 24 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit I thought i was over dan bejar! this took me a couple listens but: on board.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
not going to listen to any of this until the records released, but i hope its awesome!
― markers, Friday, 24 December 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if you (1) like destroyer and (2) liked "bay of pigs" you will like this album
― k3vin k., Friday, 24 December 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I like but don't love. Listened on a long car trip last night. "Song for America" and in particular that "winter spring summer and fall / animals crawl towards death's embrace" repeated section had me rollin my eyes. Not so into Bay of Pigs either so the album kind of ends on a low note for me. Several of the tracks in the first two-thirds are pretty great though.
I can get with a lot of slick "unhip" music like this but .... there is some serious adult contempo cheese on here. Done totally professionally of course. Just not sure why exactly you'd want to do it.
seems like he kinda needs to since there's little structure and no choruses? wouldn't be much to latch onto otherwise
― dmr, Saturday, 25 December 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
there's little structure and no choruses?
this seems largely like destroyer's m.o., at least since rubies.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the repetition. seems very loose/spontaneous/natural. but I could see how it would be a turnoff for some people
on one of the songs (forgot which one — maybe the very beginning of "kara walker"?) I sorta imagined that he was rapping, which was lolsy
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Not so into Bay of Pigs either so the album kind of ends on a low note for me. Several of the tracks in the first two-thirds are pretty great though.
agree. i also agree w/ the 'not-enough-guitar' comment somewhere up thread.
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
nah
― kanellos (gbx), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Also like but don't love, but this is after one listen (also in the car) and no lyric sheet
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 25 December 2010 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
destroyer ft. tim hecker - 'archer on the beach'
this is kinda awesome
― pretentious: based on the album 'what happened?' by emeralds (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Excellent <3
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
8 years old. How.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
one of the greats
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
randomly the new lloyd cole album "guesswork" sounds a lot like a destroyer album with lloyd cole singing (with a touch of junior boys ballads too)
― na (NA), Monday, 29 July 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
i'm not saying it's a great album or anything
thanks for the tip! this album is totally Blue Nile core.
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 29 July 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
the commotions were definitely in the sophitipop pocket at times (other time more jangly or even countryish?). can't say I've kept up with his solo career but will give this a listen
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 July 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
quite possibly my favourite album ever is 10 years old today, wow
― ufo, Monday, 25 January 2021 04:16 (three years ago) link
The weird part about Kaputt is that also showed me that the saxophone didn't suck. I was such a self-loathing sax player for so long and Kaputt showed me that people actually want to hear a saxophone solo. Who knew?— Joseph Shabason (@JosephShabason) January 25, 2021
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:55 (three years ago) link
(he's the saxophonist on it)