Album Rating: 4.5
Ken continues to do virtually nothing for me, unfortunately. Haven't heard Poison Season yet. The best songs here are better than the best on Streethawk and I'm not hearing that drop off in the second half that you are.
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Album Rating: 4.0
You are lucky then, but I really find nothing mind blowing after 'Looter's Follies'...and even that song I have a slight love/hate relationship with.
First four songs are the stuff of legend, that's for sure.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Rubies and Follies are the obvious highlights and I'd say they're almost enough to carry the album on their own.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I actually most enjoy tracks 2-4, the opener does justify the epic track length though. 'Follies' is great, I'm just sometimes not in the mood. After that there's a couple of songs that sound like Bejar's take on Pavement and some slow numbers that just never put in those hooks for me.
Generally I just prefer the aesthetic Bejar has been working on since 'Kaputt' - simply personal taste, not as much song writing per se, though the aesthetic does influence the song writing up to a point.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Well aren't you fucking lovely, boney
a 5 awaits
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Album Rating: 4.5
That's interesting Doof, I've been coming from the opposite side with Bejar so far i.e that the songwriting is what sticks out most for me rather than the style he chooses to use on a particular album. This album and Kaputt are to me clearly the strongest in that regard.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I really like the band he has now and the use of the sax and trumpet. Watching them live was really revealing, the dude who switches between playing both of those instruments is impressive.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Looters' Follies is a godsend
I lifted the veil to see nature's trickery revealed as pure shit
From which nothing ever rose cause nothing ever could
I swear somewhere the truth lies within this wood
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Album Rating: 5.0
Win or lose...what's the difference?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Now come on honey let's go outside
You disrupt the world's disorder just by virtue of your grace, you know...
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I'm very tempted to give this the 5 bump. I hadn't realized how perfect this was before now.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Now it's 1987 all the time...
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pig destroyer >
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Album Rating: 4.0
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds >
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Album Rating: 4.5
Ba da da dum…
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Album Rating: 4.5
Good for you
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i was gonna comment something like "if early 70s bowie time traveled to the 00s this is what he'd sound like" thinking it was a super original observation, only for it to be in the summary of the review lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
I wouldn't say this is the Destroyer album with a major Bowie influence - I mean 'Streethawk' is almost a homage to Bowie quite clearly, but this is just very very Bejar
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will have to check streethawk but i very much get hunky dory vibes on here with how the vocals have that dylan-esque cadence but with some vibrance and theatricality coupled with the sorta zany but also commentarial lyrics
and maybe some early-ziggy, the la la las all over this album sound straight out of starman (or even memory of a free festival)
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oh yeah it is very much its own thing don't get me wrong, really dig this album as well as kaputt need to dig into the other albums soon
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