Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

I enjoyed this

Is the beginning of this "Jungleland" or what?

like this song a lot
kind of OD'd on kaputt, but feel like i could go back to it now...

I love this song.

aw shit, here comes the sun.

Love it. Also, the first verse is parodying Springsteen lyrics, right?

'Dream lover, I know
Someone's idea of fun
You and me, thoughts on city
Lovers on the run'

You and me, thoughts on city... That's pretty much every Springsteen/Hold Steady lyric ever.

not a Mariah Carey cover :(

I'd like to hear him hit Mariah's high note in that one!

The bassline from Cemetery Gates is in there somewhere, right?

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9651-accidental-pop-a-conversation-with-destroyers-dan-bejar/

kinda disappointing that he's lost interest in the 'pop' of kaputt

I'm the opposite, all the dour-and-not-pop stuff in this interview is making me quite optimistic about this new record (I didn't care for Kaputt)

I loved Kaputt, by far the best he's done imo, but it was great in a way that could be done with a lot of different sounds. I love Dream Lover as well, so I have hope.

I love Kaputt and don't expect him to repeat it (or me to care about the band again).

Alfred, did you hear Five Spanish Songs? not sure how it would play to someone who actually understands the lyrics, but I found it an interesting companion piece to Kaputt sonically

Kaputt is easily my favourite, and Dream Lover keeps the feel of the band from Kaputt despite kinda returning to his usual 70's-ish style so I'm quite hopeful. The press release mentions Prefab Sprout etc. which I know were a big influence on Kaputt so if that's still evident it'll be nice.

bernard: I have. It's pretty!

What originally got me hooked on Destroyer was how spot on the Ziggy Stardust sound was on Streethawk, so I'm pretty thrilled this record goes for "70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock".

@frederik
You and me, thoughts on city
Lovers on the run
is hilarious as Springsteen parody

I would watch a true detective with Dan bejar saying shit like "beware the company you reside in" over and over while Blake Shelton is like wtf man

"We've been told you still fly into rages at the mention of Christine White's name. You want to tell us what that's about?"

Re that Pitchfork interview, kinda wish he was as tough on Jessica Pratt whom he praises, as he is on Taylor Swift. But he is who he is.

oh god that interview. love it/hate it/love it.

"PF: There are a few songs on Poison Season that are among the poppiest Destroyer songs you’ve ever made."

DB: Yeah, I know. I apologize for those songs; those songs are aberrations."

Pitchfork interview is cool, he comes off as a real character!

Over the last 11 years or so, I’ve mostly just listened to Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan.

Hehe...

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9651-accidental-pop-a-conversation-with-destroyers-dan-bejar/

New track:

https://soundcloud.com/destroyerband/girl-in-a-sling#t=0:00

some discussion already over at Destroyer - Poison Season

can we make a list of albums that are very similar to kaputt but not kaputt?

1) Roxy Music - Avalon

2)Al Stewart- Year of the Cat

prefab sprout -- steve mcqueen

a lil bit at least

Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

The Blue Nile - Hats

in the kaputt vs. let england shake thread there's a lot of great posts about how this record def contains sophistopop references but also takes them a step further, sounding like an idiosyncratic contemporary of these records that was never made at the time

actually possibly no posts in that thread said that and i'm paraphrasing them incorrectly but: there are a lot of great posts in that thread

that was a good thread.

some fun trolling and beef too e.g. flopson and aero

I'm sure I wrote in this thread that Kaputt evokes sophisti-pop, but I was wrong: it's a histrionic Robert Wyatt album.

Isn't Comicopera already a histrionic Robert Wyatt album?

compared to Kaputt it's Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks.

weird, I just decided to explore sophisti-pop today and the list of ten essential albums I found had "Kaputt" on it (as well as "Avalon" and "Steve McQueen")

It's not as ostentatious about it as some of the above examples but I think Rickie Lee Jones' The Magazine arguably belongs here as well.

what does histrionic mean? dramatic? kaputt's pretty low key though? robert wyatt - hmm feel like Croz' remark on VU: too dramatic

anyway, sophistipop and yacht rock suggestions welcome, blue nile and late Cohen nice too

Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

Good one. Will have to check out the Prefab Sprout too, have come across that recommendation before.

There's something luxurious, melancholic, inoffensively beautiful about Kaputt that I guess makes everybody I know love it.

Here: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/bluffer/sophisti-pop.htm

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies is an obvious reference point though not the same sophisti-pop vibe.

Was surprised to see he'd name-checked Screamadelica, but you can hear the influence in the drums in a few places (Song for America, Kaputt) I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxOL77KMcd8

This is pretty great--Bejar even cracks a couple of jokes!

Does John Martyn ever get included in the sophistipop canon?

not really like Kaputt as such but i love this slice of sophistipop (in a slightly glum Sunday evening in Surrey kinda vein). also has the wonderful lyric "and i close my eyes....with my eyelids"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3deHdO0R4

Xpost - Martyn probably makes it for some of his post-peak work like Grace and Danger (which I love). One World has some perfectly appropriate songs but feels a bit too willfully eclectic?

some fun trolling and beef too e.g. flopson and aero

― Tim F, Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:33 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fondly remember this beef

lol aw when flopson called him an unfun crank and aero said i'm sorry

:'-)