Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

i fully approve of this phenomenon

uk date at heaven announced today! kind of sad i never saw the straight up rock version, tbh, but still happy at the idea of seeing this

Ha, I was supposed to review that show for the Trib, but I handed it over to Althea for a confluence of reasons.

aagh this show was so good!!

i didn't care abt the lyrics sheet - the lyrics are so much like poetry that forgetting some of them seems inevitable imo. anyway, dan is so great who cares.
they did a few older songs too = happiness. esp '3000 flowers', which i love love love

yeah this was great

though I was slightly disappointed that he didn't kaputtify his older songs more than he did

everything from kaputt was incredible. highlights were (unsurprisingly) suicide demo for kara walker, song for america and bay of pigs

totally. ooh and i picked up the vinyl too and it sounds straight up beautifullll

holy moly! uk date! so stoked! don't think he's played here before has he?

he said last night that he's never even visited the UK, outside of Heathrow and that one-off at ATP in 2008ish?

last night's montreal show was WONDERFUL. by far the best Destroyer gig i've ever seen. the music is just so beautiful, everything big and catchy and dancing. dan's as aloof as ever, staring into the middle distance, but man the band is tight and so weirdly charismatic. AMAAAAZING Kaputtified covers of "it's gonna take an airplane", "painter in my pocket" and at least one more.

and BAY OF PIGS as encore!

hate myself for not going

bought tickets this morning

gf thinks kaputt is cheesy (break uppable imo) so basically she doesn't get one

nice

what's fair is fair.

i will be attending tonight's show at the Middle East.

oh man, didn't even know he was coming to town tonight. i've been missing out on all the cool shows this year. have fun!

wish it was somewhere else though. sound @ Middle East will butcher the dulcet tones of Kaputt. mark my words.

rip

So how was Destroyer at Webster Hall last night?

love this record.

don't hear the neil tennant AT ALL. find that a very odd comparison. The super mega comparison for anyone
who knows him is Luke Haines - both in tone and style too occasionally - always wonder whether Bejar is an Auteurs/Luke fan at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgzLq4tZhoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82apZ20aMBI

So how was Destroyer at Webster Hall last night?

heard from one friend who loved it but she is sort of a Bejar superfan, so

they were great here in Cambridge on Saturday. i had to leave after a handful of songs, however, due to the obnoxious crowd. talking loudly the whole time, texting, taking pictures and blocking my view. it was too hard. youngsters these days.

like that everywhere, eh

i know. i think i'm done.

Thanks, Nerve (and dmr). I'm glad I didn't go for the same reason. Too old...if you've seen "Greenberg", that scene at the party captures it very well

go to club, pay ticket price, buy drinks, talk loudly, text, check Facebook, and take pictures documenting the band you're not paying attention to.

Just about everyone's more easy going than me, but I don't know how musicians put up with that shit on stage

i know!! i'd leave. srsly.

have a few beers and dance

makes it easy to ignore everyone else

Belated comment on Chicago show - agree with the feeling old part. Odd sight for me was the 2 early twenties girls drinking wine and grinding on each other during Suicide Demo. Also a young dude was so psyched for Bay of Pigs he was jumping up and down! I was in the front though so maybe it probably wasn't like that further back.

The non-Kaputt songs were so good I wish they had done more just to hear how they would've worked them out. Gonna Take an Airplane totally rocked and Painter in Your Pocket was mostly bass-driven. 3,000 Flowers was more like the album version but also rockin'. That and Bay of Pigs were the ones he took out lyric sheets for, I don't have a problem with it. He's never been that charismatic on stage, except for a solo show in 2009, but yeah the only words he spoke the entire night were "that one was called Kaputt" after the title track and "this is an older one" before 3,000 Flowers. They also had a newly reissued LP of his first cassette Ideas for Songs in case anyone cares.

From the Washington Post review:

The one band member who consistently held back was Bejar himself. The musician (also a member of the New Pornographers) offered his lyrics in a sort of disinterested hipster croon and did little to engage his fans. He spoke only a few words between songs and sometimes disappeared when not singing. He turned his back to the crowd or sank from view altogether, and cloaked his face behind a lyric sheet during “3,000 Flowers’’ and “Bay of Pigs.’’ Onstage, Destroyer’s meandering, jazzy material needs a visual focus, but the singer seemed determined not to provide it. If there were people in the club that hadn’t already taken Destroyer to heart, this performance probably didn’t convert them.

http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=5592

thanks diamond dave--excellent

nyctaper is a national treasure

all i have from him are pavement's last shows in nyc, which are great too

yeah nyctaper is kool

All that slender-wristed white translucent business
Passes for love these days
Mushhead genius passes for love these days

man this fucking record

downloading right now

Still my album of the year so far.

totes

saw em tonight

loved it.

tho war on drugs sounded like real estate fronted by bob dylan imo

Good review here

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2011/04/24/destroyer-kaputt-podinertia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cyclicdefrost+%28Thermostat+-+Latest+from+Cyclic+Defrost%29

All that slender-wristed white translucent business
Passes for love these days
Mushhead genius passes for love these days

man this fucking record

― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, April 10, 2011 5:25 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

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I don't begrudge his opinion, but I can't really agree with any of that review. The whole notion that music is improved by being lo-fi just doesn't compute. This album sounds great, not because it draws upon some 80s influences, but rather because it is expertly performed and produced and sounds much better than a lot of the stuff that folks reference in these reviews.

review is sucky - first for the Sade diss, second for him thinking that "Chasing some girls/Chasing cocaine/Through the backrooms of the world" is an oblique metaphor

awful review but also i keep reading the site's name as "celtic defrost"

well, it's metaphorical in that the world doesn't literally have backrooms, and that you can't literally chase cocaine, in that it is inanimate, and that when bejar refers to 'chasing some girls' he probably does not mean that he was literally chasing them on foot or in a vehicle

can't decide if i like this record or not, someone decide for me

you like it, but metaphorically

"the world doesn't literally have backrooms"

wtf

'I wish I could fuck every girl in the world' metaphorical because wayne's not literally bringing the girls INSIDE the world to fuck them

album of the year