Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

haha

but what about Watson

more of a Kraftwerk fan maybe

that's so awesome

Think Watson's jam is "Popcorn."

When KJ was in the midst of his run, I couldn't stand him. Now, I kinda love him.

Oy. Sold out for March 31 in Toronto. I don’t think he sold out even on the night of last time through (in the same venue).

about the googleganger

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/03/21/110321ta_talk_sanneh

lol @ accompanying cartoon

http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rID=33127

<3 'certain things u oughtta know' with the kaputt band treatment
cant wait for the show next week!!

yeah that session sounded nice. trumpets on painter in your pocket! hope he comes to my neck of the woods with this band.

is it me or did this get completely ignored by the uk indie mags? shame. guess the chances he'll ever come play live here are close to 0%

Yeah, it doesn't seem like Kaputt even got a release in the UK. I haven't seen it in any shops and the price from online retailers started and has stayed pretty high. Not sure if he has played here before at all. His profile seems largely non-existent in Scotland at least.

How could Brits NOT love Destroyer? Seems odd...cannot WAIT to see them at Webster Hall, oh yeahhhhhhhh

the last two albums got fairly luke warm reviews. you know, the I-didn't-actually-listen-it type reviews. but this one got nowt!

Bejar the 'artist' sounds like a dickhead:

For one project, “Get Lost!,” he replaced New York City subway maps with versions that had a slightly different coastline and no names or markings—he wanted to evoke the city as it might have looked in 1609, when Henry Hudson sailed past.

I'm sure the family of five from Lincoln, Nebraska who'd been saving for five years to go see the friggin' Statue of Liberty or some shit really appreciates your 'art project,' asshole.

Mandatory Bohemia fuck off

yeah and I'm sure nobody in New York would give them directions on how to get there either

lol that poor family of five

lol "art"

lol new york city

god, i'd be creeped out by that dude if i was bejar (the destroyer bejar).

i'm imagining the two of them in a fight to the death and i have to shoot the fake dan but they both keep claiming they're the real dan. don't know what to do.

this record would be pretty dope if he could get through an entire song w/out dropping a toe curling lyric

I'm interviewing Bejar soon. Any questions you guys want asked?

"Prefab Sprout: Classic or Dud?"

please ask him what his thoughts on the ken jennings quote are

I'm interviewing Bejar soon. Any questions you guys want asked?

which one looool???

Why are you so obsessed with MELODY?! Oops, wrong thread, sorry!

so apparently the laziest river instrumental stuff wasnt written by bejar but by one of the band members? or so ive been told, not that i can find anything about it on the internet

ok its ted bois

maybe everyone know that? now i want to hear a ted bois album

That extra side [a suite entitled “The Laziest River”] was recorded independently of all the other songs on Kaputt. The piano player in Destroyer [Ted Bois], doesn’t actually play on [the CD version of] Kaputt. He took all the photos, and he did the artwork for the two Destroyer EPs before the album, but he’s not playing because there’s no piano on the record. But yeah, he pretty much composed that 20-minute side in its entirety and recorded it, and it’s really kind of a feat. I mean, I’m really really into it. I sing on it a little bit, in the middle.

http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2011/03/18/extended-qanda-with-dan-bejar-of-destroyer

that song rules

yeah its the best thing ive heard all year

love that song, didnt realise dan bejar had nothin to do w/ it. good work ted

If you read the liner notes from the vinyl edition you would know that The Laziest River was mainly written by Ted Bois.

yeah, assholes, next time read the liner notes from the vinyl edition

wwwhat if i dont have a record player??

what if its super expensive for me to get the vinyl edition in the stupid uk

then you don't get to know stuff dumbass

you think its this same ted bois? http://www.ecuad.ca/people/profile/14513

tempted to email him and ask if hes going to do more of that sick tangerine dream/michael shrieve shit

well he is drinking in his picture, which means he must be cool, so... probably is him?

he looks like busy p in that pic

is it this same ted dibiase?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eV7PCieEPI

whoa gross accidentally posted the 'new intro'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDWPvhiPWg
there we go

see
this
band
live

--tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddavie85)

really? did you go to a show? details!

Had tix last night, could't go. Curious, since I've never liked him live before. But then, I haven't liked his other albums very much, either.

Hilarious that "The Laziest River" was mostly written by the piano player. Perhaps explains why the track's not on the album. And why the piano player's not on the album, perhaps!

Oh I guess I missed the show as well. Guess I'll catch him at Pitchfork.

ooh he's coming here in two weeks!

Heavier thoughts lurk under Destroyer's glittering sheen

By Althea Legaspi, Special to the Tribune
8:12 a.m. CDT, March 30, 2011

review of Chicago show

Dan Bejar, whose solo project is Destroyer, didn't look like a typical commanding frontman during Destroyer's sold-out performance at Lincoln Hall on Tuesday. Spending most of his time onstage either rocking back and forth to the rhythms with eyes closed, crouched low during instrumental passages, or with his back or side turned to the audience (with an occasional meek bow), Bejar would've looked more the part of unassuming poet were it not for the seven talented, energetic musicians orbiting him. Bejar's reticent stage presence, however, also served the material well, adding to the enigmatic quality of Destroyer.

Bejar has run the genre gamut through the course of his career, which also includes band membership in The New Pornographers and Swan Lake. From folk and psychedelia to glam and pop, his songwriting is buoyed by an instinctual quirkiness and clever, if sometimes oblique, lyrics. For his ninth solo project, "Kaputt," from which Destroyer culled most of Tuesday's set, he changed styles up once again, touching on jazzy smooth rock with shimmery, synth-driven '80s pop. Add to this Bejar's affinity for juxtaposing such comfortable, familiar musical backdrops to more cerebral lyrical themes — alienation and disillusionment among them — and the material was steeped in modern times.

Being subversive was part of Destroyer's charm. As artful, romantic and sultry as "Blue Eyes" was, with its flirting sax and trumpet and soulful male-female vocal interplay, it suggested myriad other thoughts: its creator standing on his own island ("I write poetry for myself"), media mocking and references to other's songs. What sounded breezily carefree on the surface didn't often have such attractive underpinnings.

That was a thread throughout: Beneath the appealing musical sheen, something else, perhaps more dire, was percolating. The encore "Bay of Pigs," an epic, multi-part composition, traversed so much territory lyrically and musically, it was forgivable that Bejar referred to lyric sheets. Bathed in atmospherics with New Age beginnings, the opus grew in scope, incorporating flute, discofied dance beats and rock. Destroyer's show proved enjoyable whether skimming the easy-listening surface, or delving deeper.