destroyer

the opening one-two punch to "city of daughters" is like my favorite ever

and yeah, "bay of pigs" is amazing

havent seen you for ages
still fly into rages
at the mention of your name...christIIINNNEEE...WHIIIITE

http://pitchfork.com/news/40413-destroyer-goes-ikaputti-on-new-album/

Kaputt:

01 Chinatown
02 Blue Eyes
03 Savage Night at the Opera
04 Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
05 Poor in Love
06 Kaputt
07 Downtown
08 Song for America
09 Bay of Pigs (Detail)

also

As previously reported, on November 2, Merge will release the new Destroyer EP "Archer on the Beach" b/w "Grief Point", featuring collaborations with Tim Hecker and Loscil. Neither track will appear on Kaputt.

not rly anticipating that one tbh

but I anticipate Kaputt

I love the whole druggy Bowie vibe on the disc.

psyched for this

I love the whole druggy Bowie vibe on the disc.

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haha, not trying to hate but... couldn't you say this about basically every Destroyer album ever??

in my defense, i was in a drug-induced haze when i posted this.

and no, i mean, that synth-y disc he did before rubies and that bay of pigs EP and that theif piano-based disc weren't "druggy."

but everything else, yes, for the most part.

also, lately I've been wondering: is there some sort of critical or fan consensus that This Night is not among his best work? because I friggin' love that album, and think it has a totally awesome vibe from start to finish, in spite of (because of?) the overlong jamminess of some of the songs

bernard, you are right on--these kinds of records are so big and epic (like exile) that they can't really be appreciated except after a period of subterranean integration. yes, it is the sleeper/secret weapon in the destroyer oeuvre!

This Night is the favourite of "the man himself", so I'm told

YESSSS NEW RECORD

okay I'm glad it's not just me -- under the right conditions, which are not particularly uncommon, "Tonight Is Not Your Night" is easily my favorite song in the entire Destroyer oeuvre -- I mean fuck, those lyrics:

I also know I'm not the one
You've been dying to slip off with
Into the night!

You shouldn't hurt the ones you love
... Unless you really want to

Try to celebrate the world
Not hurl insults at a girl

i wonder how the new record will sound like - is it going to be another departure in sound or more of the same?:

Trouble In Dream was basically a weaker version of Rubies, and the new e.p's are electronic-based stuff.

I consider Rubies, Trouble In Dreams, Streethawk, and Thief all better than This Night

i agree. This Night has it's moments but it tends to be tedious

feels like it's been forever since we've gotten a new Destroyer record, but that's probably just because we got Trouble in Dreams two years after Rubies and here there'll have been a three year wait

This Night has "Goddess of Drought" = one of Bejar's finest songs

yoooo pumped for this

yeah, i agree -- goddess of drought is his best ballad-y number. this night was the first destroyer i heard, so it's a sentimental fave.

I consider Rubies, Trouble In Dreams, Streethawk, and Thief all better than This Night

don't wanna be a hater but I just don't get this. not that Trouble in Dreams sucks or anything, but it just doesn't hang together as an album for me, and I don't think there are enough awesome songs (there are a couple!) to make up for that.

Well in my estimation Your Blues towers above all his other efforts so wtfs all around it's all High Quality

fair enough

I enjoy those records more, yeah, but This Night is a monster at certain hours/in specific climates.

So much xpost.

word. at the risk of stating the extremely obvious, it's an excellent, er... night album

feels like it's been forever since we've gotten a new Destroyer record, but that's probably just because we got Trouble in Dreams two years after Rubies and here there'll have been a three year wait

well, he released that bay of pigs ep about a year ago, and that title track quickly became one of my favorite destroyer songs.

hope he goes with that on the upcoming full-length disc.

totally forgot that was even released -- and last year!

hope he goes with that on the upcoming full-length disc.

09 Bay of Pigs (Detail)

I wonder if (Detail) means the entire song's just gonna be a taken from the cutting room floor, one second clip of someone pressing a single key on a keyboard

Destroyer, the wordy, glammed-up project led by New Pornographer Dan Bejar, will release their ninth album, Kaputt, on January 25 via Merge.

In a press release, Bejar lists off 22 things we might want to know about the album. That oblique list is below, as is the album's tracklist.

Bejar: "Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango in Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what's to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… The LinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…"

Thought you all might be interested

The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today…

cosign

don't wanna be a hater but I just don't get this. not that Trouble in Dreams sucks or anything, but it just doesn't hang together as an album for me, and I don't think there are enough awesome songs (there are a couple!) to make up for that.

It took a very long time for Trouble in Dreams to click for me, but it finally did. This Night, I gotta be honest, it just seems interminable to me. Some good songs & then some that just go on forever. It & Your Blues are the weakest points in the D.B. catalog for me.

Oh I had this moment earlier this year when I decided Your Blues was a perfect circle.

I've had long, long battles over the best Destroyer record, with friends and with self, but from Thief on everything is golden in its own way so why sweat it.

Fuck, I just imagined Bejar singing lyrics over Boys & Girls.

It was fucking awesome.

It took a very long time for Trouble in Dreams to click for me, but it finally did.

This Night, I gotta be honest, it just seems interminable to me. Some good songs & then some that just go on forever

oh also: it's sort of a recurrent theme throughout Bejar's work, but I feel like there's a particular emphasis in This Night on the limitations of language -- all the wordless choruses, lines about "Deciphering what it means / When the band goes 'Doo rah, doo rah, doo rah, doo rah'"; I even read "Here Comes The Night" this way, interpreting the "night" in a line like "Don't look now, angel, here comes the night! (Ba-baaa, baaa, babababababa)" as a sort of absolute wordless darkness, desolation and loneliness, an emotional state that can't be conveyed (or exorcised) by language. but this might be a personal hangup.

so, Kaputt is going to be a "saxophone and soft jazz driven ode to an America that doesn’t seem to exist anymore."

this guy doesnt like it so much:

http://ventvox.com/tag/destroyer-kaputt-review/

i don't listen to jazz, and i don't like saxophone so much, so my anticipation level goes down, down,down...

Kinda want to beat that reviewer up

This album will rule

because?

Because Bejar is one of the few people that could pull off such a horrendous sounding concept. Really anxious to hear this, tbh.

i didn't like Your Blues so much, but i can see where youre coming from

i have a demo of suicide demo for kara walker and its pretty brilliant. it kinda bobs along at the same pace, doing the same thing. in the same vain as shooting rockets/bay of pigs/grief point i guess. the main instruments appear to be a bass guitar, a broken keyboard and a drum machine. then it finishes with a fake saxophone solo. looking forward to this album.

mp3: http://www.mbvmusic.com/2010/11/23/mp3-destroyer-chinatown/30569
sounds good to me, but i really love Your Blues, so this is a welcome return to that kinda more synthetic sound. sounds a little looser, spacier than Your Blues. Balearic, maybe?

uhhh this is amazing

brb firing up my yacht

This is amazing.
Also in that it's amazing without the zingers
Which I'm sure we'll be getting to by track 2?

well, at least it doesn't have fretless bass all over it.