Destroyer
Label: Rough Trade Publishing
Read Description:
Soft rock, smooth jazz, and new romantic pop stitched together to produce a patchwork quilt smothered in originality.
Dan Bejar has been producing records under the Destroyer moniker for the better part of the past decade and a half. When he’s not resurrecting his role as a fringe member of the New Pornographers, he’s generally at work on some new collection with which he’ll further convey his complex ideas on love, or at least his refutation of the world’s simplistic understanding of love.
His lyrics are spiteful yet enchanted, discouraged yet awestruck, riddled with pop-culture references and garnished with dozens of assorted female names. He usually sings them in his nasally, Bowie-infused snarl, occasionally rattling his dense words off in a quick fire succession over a flurry of layered guitars.
Riddled with 80’s influences and combining periodic smooth jazz saxophone lines, coolly fluttering flute, acid jazz explorations, and mechanized hallway drumbeats, “Kaputt” sounds jarringly beautiful in its makeup. Adopting some of the era’s most passé, even laughable elements, Bejar turns these low-culture signifiers into a vehicle for expressing a sense of warped nostalgia.
Releases we represent:
- Kaputt | Album | Rough Trade Publishing | 2011
Quotes:
"Dan Bejar had to put out his masterpiece sooner or later." - obscuresound.com
"Kaputt is the sort of record that arrives only once in a while: an expansive world that captivates you from beginning to end, impresses you with its self-awareness and cohesiveness, then releases you from its grasp when it’s all over. " - consequenceofsound.net
Tracks included on the following sampler:
- Destroyer "Kaputt" Download sampler here
