It’s no secret that I’m a Destroyer devotee. If you’ve ever wondered why, the latest full-length, Kaputt will either clear things right up or confuse you even further. It’s possibly Destroyer’s most accessible album, and at the same time, it’s possibly Destroyer’s most off-putting. Or, neither, I really don’t know. Maybe it’s more like the …
Last year, Destroyer released Bay of Pigs, a 12″, two song departure from the folksy-bluesy lo-fi indie-lit-rock that had define most (but not all) of the Destroyer discography. As if to assure us that this departure is no brief intermission, 2010 brought another Destroyer 12″, similarly packaged and again with two tracks nothing like anything …
Destroyer’s 2009 EP, Bay of Pigs – a two-song, 21 minute outing — is its so called “Disco Record.” That’s because there are post-techno disco elements, of course, but I think it’s worth noting that the EP consists of only a few danceable minutes, maybe only two, ignoring the idea that one can dance to …
In April, a Destroyer demo cassette was unearthed and uploaded on a blog called Seven Ten Twelve. [8/18/10 Note: Download the Demo Cassette here.] Six of the nine songs on the tape made their way onto We’ll Build Them A Golden Bridge (which I’ve written about). The other three are new songs to us. Like …
“Okay, fine.” That’s how Trouble In Dreams begins. “Okay, fine.” A far cry from the “revolution, revolution, revolution” that launched Destroyer. Kind of resigned, actually. And resignation’s a theme throughout Trouble In Dreams. “Nah, it’s cool.” “The state cut off my arms.” “Foam hands.” “Now it’s gone, and the whole point of everything’s the moving …
From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower: The feeling I had happened when Sam told Patrick to find a station on the radio. And he kept getting commercials. And commercials. And a really bad song about love that had the word “baby” in it. And then more commercials. And finally he found this …
In looking back on the Destroyer catalog, I’m tempted to skip over Notorious Lightning and Other Works (2005). I’d be justified, since it’s an EP, and didn’t feature any new songs. It revisits six from Your Blues, this time with a full band (and not just any band, but Frog Eyes). It doesn’t readily exhibit …