destroyer

Yeah, less about the Swift thing than general anticipation of the new record. But Diamond Dave set me straight on that

I heard "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart for the first time today snd just, damn. D sounds just like him! And the instrumentation and progression were spot on too.

mmh has actually been mentioned on the quite active kaputt thread
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

not much love for trouble in dreams in this poll! great alb imo

yeah that's a good one (but I still would vote for Rubies over anything else by a large margin)

I'm not suprised (by the results of this poll that I've certainly seen before, lol) -- 'Rubies' got so much love on ILM when it was released vs. everyone everywhere being kinda down on 'Dreams' (check Bejar's riffing on "Grief Point") -- In the end, though, I played 'em both out, along with the three before (still haven't heard Thief, not crazy about CoD)

AS an aside, I and my wife both LOVE Grief Point.

yeah but like... you're self-loathing english on the mediterranean, innit?

Bejar featuring on a new Sandro Perri track. Very nice!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/sandro-perri-everybodys-paris-pt-iii-ft-dan-bejar/

that's great!

thanks for the heads up

Seeing him do a solo show at the end of the month. Interested to see how the lush sounding stuff from his recent records comes across sans band.

I saw him do a solo show last night, it was cool. he played songs from all over his career - at least one from every album except Ideas for Songs and City of Daughters and also one new one called I think 'Crimson Tide' that was reminiscent of the first section of Rubies and a lyrical sequel to The Laziest River.

hope he manages to bring the full band out here some day.

https://mergerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-merge-group-plays-heroes

live album of a merge supergroup doing a "heroes" album tribute, featuring bejar on lead vocals. it sounds great

This sounds great!!!