yes yes yes still album of the year. i think i've said it on here before but the obvious vocal comparison = luke haines. they are totally the same person split into different nationalities (thus bejar is a lot more positive obviously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqmLQE6BiwY
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Best America-themed album in years? Discuss.
― answering_machine, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Well, no, that would be this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YoeL-GdyL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
But it comes damn close.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Damn, The Laziest River is really astonishing, isn't it? So cinematic, so epic, so beautifully paced, so beautifully recorded. I wish it went on for hours.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeap, my album of the year as well, nothing has been better
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
also *my* album of the year, tho it's not like i hated all other 2011 music by any means
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
still haven't heard laziest river. is it worth getting the vinyl for it?
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
yes. or the UK/european version of the CD has it.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah absolutely worth it
― max, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
I found it on a blog (might've been posted upthread). It's amazing.
― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
would buy a solo album from that guy
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
i just emailed the guy at the website i posted above and asked if its the right ted bois and if hes going to write more stuff like TLR
― max, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
Keep us "posted," Max!!!
― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
I think the album's terrific, but I don't think anything else comes close to the majesty of The Laziest River, so yeah, the vinyl's more than worth it!
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
the vinyl came with a link to DL a 320kbps of the entire album, including the laziest river, iirc
listening to the vinyl right now, though, dang
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
bois wrote me back! says hes working and will maybe have new stuff next year! i sent him a link to this thread, too
― max, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Righteous.
― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yall have inspired me to pull this back out after a few months away from it.
Damn, what a great album.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah its basically made me seek out all the destroyer stuff i didn't have, feel a bit of an idiot for not having done so sooner.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Great work Max!
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
best of the year for me too
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
OK fine -- I'm playing "Savage Night at the Op-eh-RAAAAHHHH"
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
the turn in the weather made me reach for this. not as much of a summer jam
and yeah this is my top pick
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't heard a lot of albums released this year but this album's my favorite of the ones I've heard.
― Euler, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like to listen my way through all the albums that people have compared this to on this thread. Somehow I've never managed to hear "Avalon" or "Boys and Girls", so maybe those should be next.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh i'm regreting preordering the merge version now. i'll try and get the vinyl.
the videos for kaputt and savage night at the opera are pretty good. the savage night one is a bit of a slog but the pay off makes up for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puu3IvKnSb4&ob=av2ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfuDbWD_PIk&feature=relmfu
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
ha, that's a pretty neat homage to the paris one
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa! This is the first Destroyer record I haven't listened to a bajillion times.
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
and this is the first Destroyer album I've listened to a million times.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
AOTY for me, too. That smeared trumpet blare is my favorite sound of 2011.
― Punned Sheerest, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
Everything I found at best arch and at worst loathsome in Bejar's voice finds its musical correlative here.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting! I've come to selfishly expect certain things in a Destroyer record, maybe I should re-approach Kaputt with less neediness.
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
(Not saying I don't love it already, of course)
first album ive heard by the guy tbh
― Michael B, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
First I'd heard by him, too; really like it, enough to have picked up Rubies (awesome guitar playing, great songs) and Your Blues (only arrived today; not listened yet) too.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Streethawk is probably the most underrated Destroyer album.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
that's weird, that one is usually acknowledged as his best
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
your blues is incredible, though. my second-favorite destroyer record. its his closest to the sound of kaputt while also being something very different.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like there are now like two eras of Destroyer fans, those who were around to fall in love with Streethawk back when it came out and, in much larger numbers, those who only came aboard after the massive Rubies acclaim and the New Pornos exposure. I'm guessing Streethawk is considered the best by the former group and underrated by the latter.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
if i were to pick a consistently unacknowledged destroyer record it'd be thief which i consider marginally better than streethawk
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
i think "kaputt" might be bringing in a new era of destroyer fans, especially per all the people who just said on this thread that they hadn't heard any of his older stuff.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, well, sure, but I'd argue that the biggest jump in number of fans came post New Pornos and Rubies exposure.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
maybe. regardless, a lot of people might be into kaputt because it has a very distinct sound, and they would likely be disappointed by the lack of that sound on previous albums
i always liked rubies but i have trouble listening to the other stuff. not because it's objectively bad by any means, but because i find his voice cringeworthy in certain contexts and i p much never want to listen to bowie-inspired indie musics from the 2000s
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07kT3N5H14
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
If you want to talk underrated Destroyer records, it's a toss-up between Thief and City of Daughters, the latter of which I'd esp. recommend to anyone who doesn't like the Bejar snarl, his vocal performance on it is subdued, the lyrics are appealing in how formative they sound
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabZuP0FNQs
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to this on the way into work this morning and thought it was kinda terrible tbh. God help us if there's a war etc etc.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
I suppose it's less an issue of the voice with me and more that I found the combination of the production and the songwriting really cloying, but then again this is a problem I have with a lot of North American indie.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
All this debating over contingents of Destroyer fans has overlooked me and people like me: people who knew about him pre New Pornographers and didn't really like him, didn't really like him in the New Pornographers, didn't really like him live, and generally haven't liked a Destroyer album til this one. Which means he now faces a creative challenge: if you release a breakthrough album, does your follow up once again go a different direction and likely alienate the fans you broke through to or just offer more of the same, but even more of it? I'm not sure where this guy will go with this. On one hand, he has been known to lose interest and wander a la Oldham. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure he enjoys being popular. But maybe not.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 October 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link