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”.
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