Destroyer "Have We Met" out 1/31/20

album is out, it's still excellent, one of his very best

"it's in your heart now" is like, if robert fripp played lead on something from disintegration

sounds good on first listen

Has it been put back in the U.K.?

looks like the uk physical release is delayed until june?

https://bellaunion.ochre.store/release/266901-destroyer-labyrinthitis

"it's in your heart now" is like, if robert fripp played lead on something from disintegration

Late getting around to this one and haven't finished my first listen yet, but I wanted to call this post out as being very much otm.

I'm recent to Destroyer, having only heard Kaputt this year, and only now another with his latest, but it just struck me on "Tintoretto" that there's a David Tibet aspect to him. The mystique, the spoken word full of pathos and disassociated, attraction for piano and ambient/dance electronics, formula applicable to any sound, the fan obsession. Maybe a bit of a stretch. Anyway, I like the new album.

Obsessed with the second half of ‘June’.

new album is my fav thing he's done in a long time

its good feels like a logical extension of the last one but more uptempo

"all my pretty dresses" an instant fav, beautiful song

someone should make a soundboard that embeds additional gratuitous sound effects into "It Takes a Thief."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2f_7OCWXtc

full show video

wish audio was better

Saw him live for the first time recently. He seemed a little shy at first. It took him a few songs to get in the zone (the zone is brimstone and wire), but once he got there he was pretty good. He gave me the biggest introvert vibes I've ever seen off a live performer of his caliber.

They played actually very little of the new album! But the production on the record is so weird that I guess it'd be hard to reproduce live. It was cool to hear a lot of older material. They closed the show with a couple Kaputt tracks, which made me happy.

I've seen Destroyer three times, and, perhaps unusually, Bejar seemed most comfortable at the show where he played solo acoustic.

Why do you say that might be unusual? Makes sense to me, given his beginnings.

I saw them last night. My abiding memory of the gig? The bass player's performance! Slap bass with flapping combover and staring eyes...

I can picture Bejar singing that last sentence.

haha

Slap bass with flapping combover and staring eyes/
Remind me again how much we're going to pay these guys

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

new one-off single with sandro perri

meandering

kept waiting for it to start

The back half of Labyrinths is really fun. This album is really clicking for me now as one of the best of the year.

"Suffer" cracked me up every time I heard it because I thought the distorted voice at the beginning was randomly saying "Sega!" Turns out it's "Say it!"