Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

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

dunno if it was just me but one of the models i thought mila kunis and the old dude hemingway

officially love this album. it feels like a more laid-back/organic "Your Blues". It also works so well as an album, it just flows along. I can't wait to listen to it in spring.

hey y'all

Holy Shit that video!!!!

That video is maybe the closest depiction (in style, not actual subjects) to the vague images I saw in my head when I first listened to Your Blues.

cool charlesburg

i listened to this 4 times in a row at work today

sarge are you on my level with this yet or what

album of 2011

ha, shit, i haven't listened to this yet actually

i'll download it now

dude

why arent u on aim fwiw

well tbh the whole smooth jazz thing made me kinda wary

dont be a pussy, jordan.

you can handle smooth jazz.

i DJ'd a kind of early set tonite from 8pm-10pm. lotsa people from the start but kind of a standing round art gallery vibe for the first hour.

i opened my set with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRSwdKclcpg

nb mixed right out of it into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iPZtJpFJA