Posts Tagged ‘Poison Season’

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.

From the album Poison Season,

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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