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.
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
― 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
http://vimeo.com/18442047
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
if that is truly the video for the song, BEST. EVUH!!!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― alpine static, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
smelly, tasty cheese on this one.
― skip, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
some wonderfully stinky cheese, camembert perhaps
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 6 January 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno if it was just me but one of the models i thought mila kunis and the old dude hemingway
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlesburg, Thursday, 6 January 2011 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hey y'all
― buzza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy Shit that video!!!!
― Charlesburg, Thursday, 6 January 2011 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlesburg, Thursday, 6 January 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
cool charlesburg
― buzza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i listened to this 4 times in a row at work today
― gr8080, Thursday, 6 January 2011 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sarge are you on my level with this yet or what
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
album of 2011
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, shit, i haven't listened to this yet actually
i'll download it now
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
dude
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
why arent u on aim fwiw
well tbh the whole smooth jazz thing made me kinda wary
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
dont be a pussy, jordan.
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
does this come in instrumental?
― jaxon, Saturday, 8 January 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
>:|
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 January 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
is vocals are not my favorite but i'm ok with them. love this album.
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
would love an instrumental of this.
― mizzell, Saturday, 8 January 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
J0rdan, it's like not just smooth jazz as much as jazz disco, Lindstrom style.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
thanking u
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i need max on this thread
― gr8080, Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i need jaxon to actually listen to this and then post in this thread
― gr8080, Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
probably need Lamp in here too
― gr8080, Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this is my favorite album in a few years
:D
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Sunday, 9 January 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ullr saves (gbx), Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i've listened to this album probably 3 or 4 times in the past few days. that's actually saying a lot as i usually listen to mp3 downloads once or twice max before i delete from my phone. i love the music. sounds like so much stuff i love. studio or a mountain of one or the cure or roxy music or blue nile or, yes, prefab sprout, whom i'd never listened to before this thread, so thanking u for that. but i kinda think he sounds like an elf. and some of his phrasing is hella awk. that said, i keep listening to it. i listened to one song off his older album and pretty much hated it. mike simonetti posted on his FB something like, "when did all these indie rock bands learn about 'balearic'. get ready for a bunch of mid tempo schlock" or something and i commented that i wasn't sure if i loved or hated the new destroyer and now that status is no longer on his page. hmmmm.
― jaxon, Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the bejar vox are kind of an acquired taste (and maybe one more easily acquired thru listening to the rockier stuff?), but I think they're perfect for this album — phrasing is (sometimes) awkward on purpose, innit? like the part in "Suicide Demo for Kara Walker" starting ~6:00 where he motormouths unintelligibly through some stuff about "pressing fast-forward" and then lands on It's not you, it's nothing personal, no hard feelings, nothing's there, which is sung so casually that the hurt barely even registers (cf. I heard your record, it's alright on whatever track that is).
btw everyone who hears even a fragment of this album seems to instantly fall in love with it. convinced that Destroyer is Right For America in 2k11
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like so much stuff i love (like) a mountain of one
love you for loving them.
the act that bejar's recent discs (well, really rubies, i guess) most often reminds me of is 70s-era bowie.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the "400 more years of this shit, fuck it" line
― gr8080, Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man that just reminded me of another one: the transition from "I look up, I see the north star" to "I look up at the bar" — I have no idea how to render the subtleties of phrasing at play here but the whole moment is chill-giving
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
btw everyone who hears even a fragment of this album seems to instantly fall in love with it
yeah ditto
― ullr saves (gbx), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah my gf (whose taste in music is, uh, mainly p different from mine) heard some of this in the car the other day and was all "what is this it's amazing"
― lenonsense (Clay), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if it's because the smooth-jazz aesthetic was so thoroughly repudiated (after being so influential/high-profile for a while) that everyone kind of already has a place for an album that sounds like this in their heart? like it doesn't matter whether your reference point is Prefab Sprout or Bowie or Steely Dan; there's probably something you love that you can find reflected here.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link