Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

lol otm sigh

my wife doesn't like this album :( she said it's "embarrassing"

she also does not like steely dan

im going to try it out again on saturday night when it gets packed.

awesome! i mentioned upthread that i opened a dj set a few weeks ago with "chinatown" but have been thinking "song for america" would be a great end of the party/ its 5am and we're still dancing song

yeah it seems tailor-made for that

My wife gives this album a thumbs up--says it reminds her of Leonard Cohen.

Every time I listen different lyrics pop out, like "I haven't seen you ages/I still fly into rages at the mention of your name...Christine."

was listening to Sam Prekop last nite and think that maybe his use of "cheesy" horns and "jazzy" stuff on a successful idie rock record was kind of in this vein

different flavor of cheese imo

yeah obviously. there was one track that was less funky/jazzy where the horns kind of got spacey that got me thinking tho.

Uhm ya, my review: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Destroyer+hits+creative+high/4161000/story.html

Every time I listen different lyrics pop out, like "I haven't seen you ages/I still fly into rages at the mention of your name...Christine."

― President Keyes, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:52 PM (41 minutes ago)

....whiiiiiiiiiiite"

yeah this has always been a favorite line of mine

Isn't it "Christine White"? I think that's the name of an old Canadian newsperson or something, which is a funny fake name for whomever she was. How true that sentiment

yeah i just finished the lyric

no idea who she is tho

i hate to get all meta, but what other bands/acts generate this many posts before the record comes out, just curious. destroyer is like ilm catnip

actually it was me grady and a couple other dudes for several weeks until it was obvious this would be a big internet deal, then it got BNM, etc

hey i was out there pretty early too! ;)

nothing tops the rubies thread for sheer volume tho i bet

ya to be honest there's only been a few of us really in this thread, it's not like the My Big Fantasy thread.

i don't know that one, will check it out

Kanye, I mean.

haha

that killed my buzz for "My Big Fantasy" thread

can someone explain "MIDI record"

I just bought two tickets for the Webster Hall show. Better be better than the one I saw a few years ago!

can someone explain "MIDI record"

if this is in reference to Your Blues, that record's instrumentation consists solely of acoustic guitar and transparently fake-sounding instrument samples that sound like they're MIDI-sequenced

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTo8fjGUgs4

"It's not a war/til someone loses an eye"

Yeah, I kind of get where people are coming from with the whole MIDI thing, but realistically, most current music that has electronic elements also have MIDI sequencing. It's a pretty standard thing and doesn't necessarily have a particular sound associated with it.

Well, yes and no. When one says "It's his MIDI record" they're actually referring to a late 80s / early 90s set of sounds called General MIDI. It was not a sound in itself but rather a set of 127 instruments that would be represented across the board from bargain basement Panasonic digital pianos to the "top of the line" Kurzweil varieties. Consistently 001 would be "Piano", 020 was "Strings", 049 was "Harp", 090 was "Warm Pad", etc. (I am recalling those numbers from fifteen-year-old memory, they are possibly incorrect.)

The General MIDI sound, though not applicable to a single synth, usually describes a sound that could be described as a latter-day version of the Fairlight. You'll hear fake trumpets, fake strings, timpani, etc. It's the sound you hear on karaoke backing tracks, panflute buskers, mattress commercials.

yea i figured as much. though i'd probably call that his .MID album
when i think "MIDI album" i think yamaha DX7, tango in the night, early digital recording/production, kaputt

i need max on this thread

― gr8080, Sunday, January 9, 2011 6:23 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omggggggggggggggggggggg this album why does no one tell me about these things

welcome

would be fun to feed your_blues_midi_files.zip thru gxscc for some trashy 8bit goodness

im curious why terius can use the linndrum on yamaha, sound a whole lot like prince and is awesome but this record is being scoffed at for sounding vaguely reminiscent of steely dan? seems kinda silly. oh well, haters are missing out bigtime

my wife, my 17-month-old daughter and I were all dancing to this record in the kitchen last night

― tylerw, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:33 PM

aw!

ha i was watching the baby last night while my wife was out and the baby was getting kind of crazy and overstimulated so i put on this album and was carrying her around and she fell asleep on me, which she never, ever does. so i guess babies are down with destroyer.

Every time I listen different lyrics pop out, like "I haven't seen you ages/I still fly into rages at the mention of your name...Christine."

Phantom of the Opera ref, IMO.

Ha, OK, I don't remember reading this:

oh man starting at abt 5:00 of "bay of pigs" pretty much is everything i love about this dude in a nutshell

havent seen you for ages
still fly into rages
at the mention of your name...christiiiiine

― tickle me delmar (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^sounds like a beautiful postmodern take on "phantom of the opera"

― tickle me delmar (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:24 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have no idea what you're talking about

heard this album is going to knock the decemberists out of the #1 position on the billboard charts.

Just in case lack of a legal way to hear this for free is holding anyone back, the whole album is streaming on soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/hypem/sets/kaputt/s-I2Ja2

Every time I listen different lyrics pop out, like "I haven't seen you ages/I still fly into rages at the mention of your name...Christine."

Phantom of the Opera ref, IMO.

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

More an intertextual reference to "Painter in Your Pocket," but sure.

xxp i had to load up billboard.com to make sure you weren't clowning and that the decemberists actually have a #1 album

wtf

Yeah, with a whopping 94,000 records sold. Social Distortion got to number three, with something like 50,000. Those numbers aren't shabby for indies, but I bet it feels like coasting in on a technicality, especially with Taylor Swift still selling millions her first couple weeks.

xxp i had to load up billboard.com to make sure you weren't clowning and that the decemberists actually have a #1 album

wtf

― ciderpress, Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

They only sold that many because Amazon was offering it for like 3.99.

haaa, was just kidding. heard this record is going to get a 10.0 from p4k though for real.

kaputt 10th anniversary blu-ray tetraphonic audio remaster w/ 20 minutes of bonus kosmische will be a definite 10.0

Just in case lack of a legal way to hear this for free is holding anyone back, the whole album is streaming on soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/hypem/sets/kaputt/s-I2Ja2

― gr8080, Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:01 (5 hours ago)

no "the laziest river" ;_;

ok so just now hearing "the laziest river" and wow! it's no instrumental but wow!

I like this album a lot. I can understand how people could hear Steely Dan in this, but I think this has more of an early-80s sequencer vibe - so I'd say a closer reference point would be Donald Fagen's solo joint The Nightfly or Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out", or Pet Shop Boys, or Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man, or Ian Dury - or basically any mid-80s record that featured a guy with an un-commercial sounding voice singing highbrow lyrics over sequencer-driven, dance-inspired music.

So I just bought the vinyl version and downloaded the digital copy and I'm wondering how they relate to each other. Are they exactly the same? Does the epic mp3 for The Laziest River contain the entirety of side 3?

y