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DESTROYER – ” Cover From the Sun “

Posted: October 22, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Destroyer’s forthcoming LP ken is one of the albums we’re most excited about for October. After releasing “Sky’s Grey” and “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood,” Dan Bejar’s newest single, “Cover From the Sun,” kicks it up a notch, shattering the preconceived gloom that the album hinted at. It’s an upbeat rocker, replete with guitar, tambourine and drums. Contextually, the song is also a departure from the abstract lyrics that characterize most of Bejar’s music.

Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar offers the following: Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for “The Wild Ones” (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It’s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe “The Wild Ones” speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think “ken” also means “to know.” ken was produced by Josh Wells of Black Mountain, who has been the drummer in Destroyer since 2012. The album was recorded in its entirety in the jam space/studio space that the group calls The Balloon Factory. However, unlike Poison Season, ken was not recorded as a “band” record, though everyone in the band does make an appearance.

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Destroyer – “Cover From the Sun” off of ken, out October 20, 2017 on Merge Records / Dead Oceans

DESTROYER – ” Tinseltown Swimming in Blood / Sky’s Grey “

Posted: September 18, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar offers the following: Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for The Wild Ones (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was Ken. I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It’s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about thelast few years of the Thatcher era.

Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe The Wild Ones speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think “ken” also means “to know.” ken was produced by Josh Wells of Black Mountain, who has been the drummer in Destroyer since 2012. The album was recorded in its entirety in the jam space / studio space that the group calls The Balloon Factory. However, unlike Poison Season, ken was not recorded as a “band” record, though everyone in the band does make an appearance.

From the album ken, out October 20, 2017 on Merge Records / Dead Oceans Records.

DESTROYER – ” Girl In a Sling “

Posted: July 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Vancouver native Dan Bejar is set to return in August with his eleventh album under the pseudonym Destroyer. Ahead of that album he’s shared the video for the second track lifted from the album, Girl In A Sling.

Discussing the video for the track, director David Galloway said, “he’s the Pacific Northwest’s Buster Keaton, and I hope one day to share that with the world. One day. For now, though, there’s just this sadness. This poison season.” And certainly the casual observer would probably see more sadness than slapstick in both the song and the video, either way it’s an exciting taste of the album that’s too come. Daniel Bejar is an singer songwriter from Canada.  Bejar has gained widespread popularity through his musical collaborations with Vancouver indie rock  band The New Pornographers, but has released far more material as the band Destroyer.

Poison Season is out August 28th on via Merge/Dead Oceans. Destroyer start their tour of the UK at the end of October including dates at Islington Assembly Hall and Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club.

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DESTROYER – ” Times Square/Dream Lover “

Posted: January 28, 2016 in MUSIC
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Destroyer’s 2011 album Kaputt is one of my favorites of the decade (it was 2011’s best), though I certainly wouldn’t anticipate a songwriter like Dan Bejar – always of a creatively capricious nature – to attempt to replicate that sound again. Still, I was pleased to see some of Kaputt’s elements carry over into Poison Season, which paints a similar sorta nighttime melancholy in instrumental choices (especially with the entries of orchestra and brass) and homage-laden philosophy, even if the overall experience is less cohesive than the masterful Kaputt. Still, 

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Poison Season is a solid album from a songwriter always worth checking out. Several tracks provide an eclectic glimpse; Springsteen-esque rocker “Dream Lover” is fun even if it lacks the depth Bejar listeners are familiar with, but there’s plenty of depth elsewhere – from masterful orchestral builder “Forces From Above”, which hearkens to Kaputt influence Bryan Ferry in the string-laden nonchalance, to the sweeping cinematic lushness of “Bangkok”. There’s always at least one of atmospheric beauty or rampant infectious hooks in a Dan Bejar track, often both, and the efforts here are no exception.

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DESTROYER – ” Dream Lover “

Posted: May 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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Dan Bejar will return in August with a new album as Destroyer. Entitled “Poison Season”, it marks his first full-length solo effort since 2011’s Kaputt. In 2013, although during that time he has released a Spanish-language EP called Five Spanish Songs.

According to a press release, the new album “often appears to take sonic cues from a distinctly British (usually Scottish, to be precise) strain of sophisti-pop: you might hear traces of Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Orange Juice, or The Blow Monkeys. These songs merge a casual literary brilliance within intense melodic verve, nimble arrangements, and a certain blue-eyed-soul sadness.”

You wait forever for Canada’s Destroyer to release his follow-up to 2011’s ‘Kaputt’ – their best record, and one of the best albums of the decade so far – then the band’s leader, Dan Bejar, announces a double album, ‘Poison Season’, and an accompanying two-song 12-inch. Album track ‘Dream Lover’ is noisier than the material on ‘Kaputt’ – closer to ‘Born To Run’-era Springsteen – but equally poignant, telling a difficult tale of lovers on the run.
The tracklist contains three versions of a song titled “Times Square, Poison Season”. The opening track was recorded with a string quintet; a reprisal appearing in the middle of the album is described as saxophone “street-rock” and a “curtain-closing reverie” serves as the closing track. listen here  to another album track, a bombastic, Springsteen-ian number called “Dream Lover”,

Poison Season arrives August 28th through Merge Records. On that same day, Destroyer will also release a two-song companion 12-inch containing a remix of “Forces From Above” along with the orchestral “Times Square, Poison Season”.

The NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – ” Moves “

Posted: June 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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with a collective of superb musicians, The New Pornographers have released some excellent music to date with a new album their sixth titled ” BRILL BRUISERS” and tour under way very soon, this video showcasing one of the earlier singles, Inventive and funny video

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