Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

xxxxxxp hahaha that might be my favorite thing t&e have done

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

Winter spring summer and fall
Animals crawl
Towards deaths embrace

just typing this out and realizing it's a nice little play on the carol king song.

Whereas I usually set up a mic to do the "real vocal take" and everything, I found that I could get the relaxed quality I wanted for this record while I was, like, lying down on the couch.

Pitchfork: Did you actually record some vocals lying down on the couch?

DB: Yeah, I did.

I didn't think it was possible to love this man more.

when i first wrote this song i had intended it to be a waltz, but the musicians i was playing at the time apparently were unable to play a waltz... and that's why this country will always be at war

That's a great quote!
I wonder what Soto and/or Matos would think of this record, especially if they haven't liked Destroyer in the past

So this is going to be huge.

duh, it's awesome

where else is this getting buzz aside from here? in the "we've heard it and it rules" sense, not the "this is comin out" sense

theres def other places

srry if that sounded snide. afaik sonically this is a v. accidentally trendy album

80s soft rock /quiet storm kinda feels like a thing right?

hipsters love sting

It has become a thing and I wish it would go away. Aside from "Savage Night at the Opera" and "Poor In Love" I think this record is total dreck.

lol rong, those are the two worst trax

they're also two of the shortest

so like if you just don't like the album, those wld probably be among yr least disliked

and they're two of the rockiest

basically what i'm saying is i think pgwp sux

otm

if u want short rocky songs go listen to a guided by voices album or something, jeeze

zing.

gtfo

stfu

>--(O___O)--< )))\___\

It has become a thing and I wish it would go away. Aside from "Savage Night at the Opera" and "Poor In Love" I think this record is total dreck.

― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, January 14, 2011 1:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I hope the P4k opinion is not this.

honestly i kinda hope this gets like a middling 6.0 from pitchfork so we don't have to deal with all the associated nonsense. i'm pretty certain it'll break 9 tho and then again i do want this dude to get paid so

pgwp is not plagenhoff i dont think. i agree abt this being accidentally trendy but what other evidence besides last year's ariel pink record is there?

ha he can speak for himself but no he's not & i don't have any problem w/ pgwp & read his blog from time to time. think we were just ribbing

I don't write for Pitchfork. pgwp stands for pretty goes with pretty.

I think that awful Gayngs record is another example of the trend - not coincidentally those are my three least favorite albums of the last few months! It's a trend that must be squelched.

xpost thanks k3vin.

Ahh I thought you were Pl@genhoff. And yeah I have no problem with pgwp. Can't blame you about those two songs tho, "Poor in Love" is the most immediate, I think. The "Painter in Your Pocket" of Kaputt?

gayngs yes

i like gayngs & this. what dont u like about the aesthetic -- is it u dont like it in gen, or just this version of it?

How similar is the Gayngs record? I haven't gotten around to hearing it yet.

they both have saxophones iirc

trenchcoat indie

I don't like the aesthetic at all, whether it's done by indie dudes in 2010 or by Lite FM artists of the 80s, 90s, and Today (tm). Though I admit to being especially irritated by the sound's infiltration into indie rock in general.

It comes down to the instrumentation, the saxophone specifically. That smooth sax sound, and sax solos in general, almost always turns me off. I can handle the synths usually, and the terrible drum sound sometimes. But smooth sax kills every song its on, whether we're talking Destroyer or anyone else.

smooth sax is like my number one favourite thing. if i was in a band there would be smooth sax solos in every song.

Love the Gayngs record, so I should love this too.

smoke weed, listen to sade imo

this is kindof precise and clear where the gayngs thing is woozy and hazy and lets smoke some weed man

I will say that of the three albums (Destroyer, Gayngs, and Ariel Pink), Kaputt is the best of them. It contains all the things I usually like about Bejar, just mixed with awfulness. It feels like less of a cheeky joke - rather, just something Bejar wanted to do. I can respect that even if I don't like it. Gayngs and AP, to my ears, sound like they're just having a laugh by playing this kind of music, which only makes me hate them more.

tbf gayngs do seem like major cunts

don't see how this sound is a 2011 "trend", I was calling bejar postyacht back in 2006 yo

Why does it have to be a "cheeky joke," though? Do saxophones have to be employed ironically? What I like about Kaputt is that the saxophones, and the guitars, the beats, is that they're actually good... the saxophone runs are just well, dope-sounding.

yeah if you watch the videos of gayngs live they do this totes gross winky "look at us in our white tux jackets" thing

ariel pink seems really weird to lump in w/ this and hes been doing this shampoo commercial fuzz pop for like ten years or more right?

I said Bejar specifically sounds like LESS of a cheeky joke, more earnest. Still hate the sound though.

Plax I'm not familiar with Ariel Pink beyond his most recent album.

Right, didn't mean to suggest you stated otherwise. I'm just asking the question in general, really.

idk i take a kinda quiet storm radio approach to all this which is 'does it sound aesthetically like other shit i like?' yes -> its dope, no -> its not

the songs are there, i dont detect a half-assedness, all three of these records sound great (gayngs most intermittently) ... i love how much (esp w/ the bass parts) that ariel pink sounds like steely dan