Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

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...

Unless of course, it's an actual rumor.

lol, obv I was making a poorly formed Rubies joek

That's what I thought lolz.

'too morose to be yacht' otm

man i love this guy

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

i won't and i never will

I WRITE POETRY FOR MYSELF I WRITE POETRY FOR MYSELF

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 can't walk away, you can't walk away

I heard your record, it's alright

sound smash hits melody maker nme
all sounds like a dream to me

fool child, you're never gonna make it
new york city just wants to see you naked
and they will

can't wait 'til us norms can hear dis

in the meantime, guess ill just go listen to "Chinatown" for the hundred and thirty-first time...

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!

oh huh, for some reason I thought it hadn't leaked yet

damn, title track is
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7476/amazingn.png

poor in love is v v pretty

for me, typical destroyer album, great music but the voice and lyrics bug me to death

"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

you're welcome, Bernard!

I won't and I never will
I won't and I never will
I won't and I never will
I won't and I never will
Blue eyes

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, December 23, 2010 11:31 AM (5 hours ago)

it may help to realize that you don't actually like destroyer

lol

FOUR MORE YEARS
FOUR MORE YEARS
FOUR HUNDRED MORE YEARS OF THIS SHIT
FUCK IT!

he kinda repeats stuff a lot on this

also seeing those lyrics in caps and with an exclamation point makes it seem like they're from a completely different song.

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

lots of drug references!

This is pretty much an Al Stewart album. Not bad.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ this makes me want the disc asap (tho i'd be happy if bejar kept making homages to mid-70s david bowie, too).

"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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEqUe8hbDTM

dammit I thought i was over dan bejar! this took me a couple listens but: on board.

not going to listen to any of this until the records released, but i hope its awesome!

if you (1) like destroyer and (2) liked "bay of pigs" you will like this album

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.

he kinda repeats stuff a lot on this

seems like he kinda needs to since there's little structure and no choruses? wouldn't be much to latch onto otherwise

there's little structure and no choruses?

this seems largely like destroyer's m.o., at least since rubies.

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

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.

nah

Also like but don't love, but this is after one listen (also in the car) and no lyric sheet

destroyer ft. tim hecker - 'archer on the beach'

this is kinda awesome

http://vimeo.com/18442047

if that is truly the video for the song, BEST. EVUH!!!

I finally got around to unzipping my copy today and was listening while surfing. Somehow ended up on a fancy, flashy website (with a "Music On/Off" button) for a fancy wedding photographer, and started hearing this sort of meandering, smooth jazz type of stuff...thinking it was drowning out "Kaputt," I went to shut down the photog's site, but the music continued...

Anyway, album is solid. The 2011 list begins...

smelly, tasty cheese on this one.

some wonderfully stinky cheese, camembert perhaps

thanks for the tip! this album is totally Blue Nile core.

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

quite possibly my favourite album ever is 10 years old today, wow

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

(he's the saxophonist on it)