Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

Such a great sound to Rubies, awesome guitar tone, great drums. All his records sound really good, even if the midi one is a bit weird.

I'd say Streethawk, Your Blues, Rubies and Kaputt are the essential Destroyer albums. Pretty much every album (except maybe for his very early stuff, which I never really got into) has its moments though.

If you like Kaputt, check out "Shooting Rockets" off of Troube in Dreams. Seems like an early attempt at the kind of stuff he would end up doing on Kaputt.

Rubies is the only other one besides Kaputt that I've really enjoyed. Haven't really been able to connect with the others.

"City of Daughters" is so underrated

^otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabZuP0FNQs

A new song is up!

https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/destroyer-el-rito/

What do people make of it? Is anyone familiar with Sr. Chinarro?

that's rubbish. i am not sure but maybe the only spanish music that works for me is flamenco. it has also the advantage that it doesn't have lyrics. spanish singing usually turns me off, more than most other languages, i don't know why.

Wow, there are so many interesting wrong things in that post

Okay, so this album has suddenly clicked. I think when it came out there was a lot of anti-retro sentiment flying around and I became too caught-up in this record's reference points and influences to really enjoy it properly. Kind of loving it now.

been bumping this again (total winter album yeah?) and it holds up soooooo well, there are no words..... new (spanish-language) EP out today soundin good to me too

lol dl weren't you the one who started the thread about how strange it was that ILM liked this more than pj harvey

heh, i don't think i started the thread (could be wrong). i remember mucking in a bit at the time of the lists that year but mostly it was getting in the spirit of EOY ruck fever (and really liking Let England Shake obv).

ah i was wrong so tell me, why is Kaputt better or worse than Let England Shake?

;)

god that actually feels like a long time ago in music terms even if it was only less than 2 years ago. feels like lots has changed since then, which is a good thing as i felt like the wider music schema didn't seem to be moving a whole lot from my POV.

funny that people are calling this a "cold" record. I see what they mean, there's a clinical production 'sheen' and a distance to it, but it's also so WARM sounding. You know how 'Being Boring' by PSB sounds like getting into a car and putting the heating on on a cold day?

this is a pure balearic shores on a warm evening record IMO

Destroyer's Kaputt is a truly timeless record; its music the score for all seasons.

the last time I was really into Kaputt was summer 2012; before that, winter 2010-1; now it's winter 2013-4... maybe I'm just on an 18-month cycle

... but when I get a "winter" vibe off the album it's from e.g. the long instrumental intros to "Kara Walker" or "Bay of Pigs" (yes I know these are two tracks that least belong to the album proper)—a sadness like wind, whose coldness & passage across your face are more important than whatever baggage (leaves/trash/snow) it happens to be dragging around the parking lot

also: "Poor in Love" chiming gtr reminds me of some other song that I associate with New Year's—maybe a confused subconscious U2 association?

Destroyer's Kaputt is a truly timeless record; its music the score for all seasons.

― 乓乒 (gr8080), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 5:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People really LOVE this album, eh? I am def coming round to it but still not sure it's CLASSIC yet.

ILM Albums Polls POLLED

Saw Bejar solo last week -- totally good show, though actually a bit light on Kaputt tunes (I think just "downtown" and "chinatown").

listening to Five Spanish Songs via Spotify right now. i can see why we really haven't talked about it. it's fine and all but nothing as great as his other stuff.

a truly fantastic album.

hey, mystic prince of the purlieu at night!

just chiming in to agree, gr80

http://i.imgur.com/Yqf8sGT.gif

~sounds smash hits melody maker nme all sound like a dream to me~

'i write poetry for myself i write poetry for myself...'

awesome album and embarrassing to the rest of us that it's his fifth or sixth best

I was bathed in golden sunlight, alright?

in with the jazz flute before Bill Callahan

I thumbed through the books on your shelf

in a pinch
in the sky
in your eye

finally got the vinyl so I can hear this laziest river business

truly a record for all seasons

still one of my favourite albums of the last x years.
is there a new one planned ?

From December 2013 interview:

"In 2014, I'm going to try and make a record! Hopefully I'll have something done by the end of the year."

So fingers crossed

eheh, thanks. that sounds like a plan !

i wouldn't expect it to sound like Kaputt though

I'd be very happy with more ambient disco explorations and spoken word ruminations.

five Spanish songs was pretty great

it's no Kaputt though

https://soundcloud.com/destroyerband/dream-lover

yesss

huh a new version of Archer on the Beach is going to be on this

I enjoyed this