Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

i need max on this thread

i need jaxon to actually listen to this and then post in this thread

probably need Lamp in here too

i think this is my favorite album in a few years

:D

i think this is my favorite album in a few years

― gr8080, Sunday, January 9, 2011 5:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

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.

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

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.

i love the "400 more years of this shit, fuck it" line

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

btw everyone who hears even a fragment of this album seems to instantly fall in love with it

yeah ditto

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"

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.

Do I go see the "eight-piece Destroyer orchestra" or the Residents? Both are playing on the same night and I'm inclined to say Residents based on everything I've ever heard about Destroyer shows, but at the same time I do find myself liking Kaputt even more than I did when I first heard it. I'm inclined to say that it and Your Blues are my two favorites for sure at this point.

xp urgh I phrased that really poorly — basically what I'm suggesting is that lots of ppl like (at least some) music that sounds like this, but nobody is really willing to make it anymore

i feel like i saw this guy live once and thought it was p much total bollocks but the ref .s ppl r throwing around here are making me confused bc it was like a more annoying of montreal then

dude the whole thing with this record is that its a new sound. a lot of the ppl ive turned onto this were like " I really did not like his other stuff but man this"

idk i dont really like challenging my preconceptions

ive never listened to prefab sprout before this thread either. maybe because they have the worst band name ever.

enjoying them so far, kind of hear the similarities.

lol yeah, i had thought prefab sprout were like a totally diff band before i heard them

anyway jus lettin u know i will never listen to this album even tho i would prolly really like it

cool, thanks for posting

for the record i think Destroyer is the best band name ever.

there's basically a spectrum of band names that looks like this:

PREFAB SPROUT <---------------------------------->DESTROYER

yeah this is really good, already my favorite of his records after Your Blues. which i guess is to say his thing works better without the usual trad-rock-sounding backing band

destroyer is a pretty good band name. surprised no one took it before bejar.

better than, say, "the beatles."

i love prefab sprout and i also love this record...

tho i also wish there was an instrumental version. hopefully there will at least be some decent remixes

ha. grady, love the band name spectrum. as much as i hate the name prefab sprout (also why i never listened to them until this thread), i kinda like why they named themselves it

According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, the band was named after a phrase from the Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood song, "Jackson", misheard by frontman Paddy McAloon.[1] The correct opening lyrics for "Jackson" are "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout";[3] which McAloon misinterpreted as 'hotter than a prefab sprout'.

i hate stories behind band names like that, like its actually a pet peve

but "Jackson" is all-time. 2 of my best friends performed a ~*raucous*~ version of it at their own wedding reception.

how could you mistake that lyric??

updated:

PREFAB SPROUT <--------------------METALLICA--------------------> DESTROYER

I absolutely fuxx with this album.

"poor in love" is my jam.

haha what a surprise.

thread needs 'balearic' in the title to bring in some more posters

I absolutely fuxx with this album.

― Tim F, Sunday, January 9, 2011 11:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

too early to say for sure but i think my favorite is "blue eyes"

really surprised that jaxon had never listened to prefab sprout b4

lol suicide demo for kara walker

apparently she wrote some of the lyrics for it? wld be curious to know which!

also, re: "Blue Eyes" — took me a long time to warm up to it because it's maybe the cheeziest thing here* — but yeah, so fucking great! hooks upon hooks! "Oh baby, can't you see they had it in for me?"/"I won't, and I never will!"/BLUUUUUUEEEE EYES!!

I like how quickly it goes from sparsely pretty Bejar intro to full-blown disco anthem. and the chiming echoey U2 guitars that pop up in the background sometimes. and, well, everything about it.

*: and knows it! i.e. telling the press "don't be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves", which I interpret as a snarky attack on the idea of "guilty pleasures" which someone will inevitably invoke w/r/t this album at some point...

Haha, I interpreted that line as being like someone walking up to you and saying, "you know, that pimple on your face really isn't that obvious."

tim f I am disappointed in you, how could "a message in a bottle" ever become embroiled in such an encounter? it boggles the mind!

close-reading, ppl!!

No, I mean I assumed he was sending them a message saying "don't be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves" in order to imply that they had reason to be.

ah, sry, the metaphor threw me

really love the way the female vocalist (over)enunciates the word "wrong" in the chorus of "Kara Walker"

(lol, as if it wasn't clear from this thread, I basically cannot put the album without listening to the whole thing — "Poor In Love" sounded great a second ago and now I'm into the title track again — pacing is A+ and uh no [obvious] weak points? or have i so thoroughly drunk the kool-aid on this one that I am incapable of objective evaluation?)

When does this come out? I have no moneys but I feel like I need to buy this.

.rar

xpost beginning of february I think?

dudes voice is hella irritating, i could prolly get over it but i would much rather here like a rasmus dub

curious why you find it so irritating — I mean yeah it's totally affected, but I think done with consummate craftsmanship and taste, and compliments the music well — plus he sings more-or-less intelligibly, which is nice because the lyrics are usually worth listening to

how do you feel about the backup vocals?