Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

Has anyone heard/loved the live version of "It's Gonna Take an Airplane"--sped up and with a bassline straight out of "All Along the Watchtower"? His show was easily the best I saw in 2011.

Blow Monkeys.

saw him on the rubies tour and "it's gonna take an airplane" was the highlight of a pretty boring set

wish I had checked out a recent show cuz he's more interesting the further he strays from a standard rock band format

seeing Destroyer tonight at Brooklyn Masonic Temple, w/ full band and still doing the Kaputt material I think, should be good

missed them last year at Webster Hall

A buddy said they killed it Sat night in DC.

sweet

I found this J. F*scher Washington City Paper interview with Dan interesting (although I have not read many interviews with him)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/06/15/once-you-break-with-rock-music-its-hard-to-find-your-feet-again-a-chat-with-destroyers-dan-bejar/

This band that I am going on tour with is different from the one that toured last year for Kaputt, and for the first time ever, [we're] kind of consciously trying to learn a bunch of back-catalog stuff in addition to stuff from the new record. We probably know twice as many songs as any Destroyer formation has ever learned. And doing that, it’s interesting to see how the older songs knock up against the new ones. They’re a fair bit different, but I guess I see it outside of thematics. It’s really noticeable in the sense of space on the Kaputt songs, in, like, an effort to flatten out as many chord changes as possible. There’s a vocal delivery required in the older songs that seems divorced from the way I was singing on the Kaputt record.

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I don’t know what I’m cast off into from Kaputt, but it seems to be a kind of void or something. Once you break with rock music, the kind of music I listened to for so long, it’s hard to find your feet again. [Laughs] I don’t know, I’m really enjoying playing with the group, more than I ever have, but at the same time I feel more distant from rock music, or even pop music, more than I ever have. It’s weird. Maybe Kaputt was like the kiss-off.

yeah, that show in dc was tremendous - great versions of "suicide demo," "bay of pigs" as the encore, etc. i dunno if i'd describe the way they perform as emotionally detached, exactly, but it isn't far off - it was kind of interesting to watch them play the older, more self-consciously clever stuff ("english music," notably) with that kind of demeanor

yeah I'm curious to hear what non-Kaputt stuff they'll play and how it will come off

Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he played a new song at the dc show. Third song in the set with a "be my baby" beat? Anyone recognize this?

saw them a couple weeks back in portland. just an amazing show. was blown away most by "rubies" as the closer iirc.

is 'english music' really more 'self-consciously clever' than anything on kaputt?? what a weird notion

yes it is

"write your english music, run free" is as self-consciously clever as good music gets

european blues

This band that I am going on tour with is different from the one that toured last year for Kaputt,

Interesting, because the press release line, via Merge and others, is that this is the Kaputt band. Who is different?

how was the sound at brooklyn masonic? the shows i've seen there have sounded pretty poor.

i don't really understand what separates 'english music' from 'song for america'. i feel like if anything kaputt is more self-conscious. or at least more difficult to parse or reduce, which seems 'cleverer' to me.

how was the sound at brooklyn masonic? the shows i've seen there have sounded pretty poor.

I thought it sounded great. it's the first time I've been to the venue so I don't have anything to compare it to. a friend said the sound was much better than the last time she was there.

the show was excellent imo. would have liked to hear English Music or something else from Streethawk or This Night, but we did get three tracks from Rubies (European Oils, Looter's Follies, Rubies) that sounded amazing. better than on the Rubies tour. horn section gave it this collapsing, wasted cabaret vibe that I was really into. Looter's Follies was probably the show highlight for me.

the show opened with Your Blues (which starts out a cappella, pretty striking), there was also a new track that was listed on the setlist as Heartswarms

from Kaputt I think they played the title track, Downtown, Kara Walker, Blue Eyes, and Savage Night

Bejar was the most comfortable and non-stage-fright-y as I've ever seen him I think.

Heartswarm is a Swan Lake song.

ah, thanks. I've only heard Beast Moans, not the second one.

http://pitchfork.com/tv/youtube/18-city-of-music/310-destroyer-performs-libbys-first-sunrise/

Cool thx.

i'm actually a little embarrassed by how much i liked that

literally watching the end of the party through smoke

time itself is unable to decay the classic from this album

was just listening to part of this today. still so good

This is pretty much an Al Stewart album. Not bad.

Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN3-0zbJrgU

i haven't listened to this since EOY lists last year.

still love this album, pretty much all of it. and uh yeah, otm about al stewart!

holds up well

Time Passages >>> Year of the Cat

Al is awesome. so is Kaputt, still. still listening to it tooooooons and recent live show was fantastic.

i had never heard of al stewart before, but thx thread!

Shintaro Sakamoto's "How to Live With a Phantom" kinda has a Kaputt thing goin on, I like it. Solo record by the ex lead singer of Yura Yura Teikoku on Other Music's record label.

not as world-weary though. but mad smooth.

kaputt is still so fucking good

yup, definitely one of my favorite records from the last years.
saw them live in a small club a few months ago and it was so good.
is there a new record on the way ?

i was ripped on dope, you were a ray of sunshine

New EP incoming

http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2013/09/destroyer-announces-five-spanish-songs-ep-for-november-release/

yes !
I would have preferred original material though.

excited for anything this dude does but seems kinda weird

Destroyer will embark on a solo acoustic tour in November, and tickets are selling fast. This will be your last chance to see Destroyer live until 2015! A full list of dates is below.

if i'm only in to kaputt, is this worth going to see?

yes because you should be into more than kaputt

if i'm only in to kaputt, is this worth going to see?

for you -- probably not? hard to say what it will be until he starts doing the shows.

I'm a fan of pretty much everything he's done though ... think I'm gonna go to the Bowery Ballroom show.

I'd imagine if he plays anything from Kaputt it would be in a radically different form.

just checked and its almost sold out, but is also walking distance from my house... i will keep you guys updated.

going

When is it?

Oh I see

kaputt's such an incredible record (my favourite of the decade) that I'm scared to listen to anything else he's ever done. Am I cutting my nose off to spite my face here?

his other work is not really like kaputt in terms of mood or atmosphere but i mean, if you like his voice, his humor, his lyricism, there's plenty to like. the malkmus comparisons used to get thrown around a lot more often but it really is true in a lot of ways