Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

addeth thy rating to the one they call Blemish and we shall come to an understanding

bejar seems like the kind of guy i would never want to have a beer with

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

because he'd spout cool sounding nonsense like this?



Dueling cyclones jackknife! They got eyes for your wife! And the blood that lives in her heart...



(courtesy of the best Destroyer album btw)

he seems like the kind of guy who would call himself an artiste.

yeah like come on bejar ya fuckin limp newt, eat a cubbyhouse, build a steak and fuck off
only james joyce and thom yorke are allowed to write like that

Album Rating: 4.5

He knocks back the beers on stage. He was starting to get a bit dizzy so he sat and sang for two songs when I saw him.



Also saw an acoustic solo Bejar set - that was classic.

wot a lightweight

Album Rating: 4.5

Most bands agreed, that's be a cardinal sin, but for Destroyer it just worked him sitting there while saxophones and guitars fired up around him.



The multi instrumentalist dude who plays sax and trumpet in his band is real impressive live.

Album Rating: 4.0

Finally spinning this.

Album Rating: 4.0

Fuck i forgot how tryhard some of his lyrics are.

Album Rating: 4.5

This one is as transportive as ‘Kaputt’ for me already.



‘Kaputt’ always reminded me of this day me and my ex gf woke up early in Bangkok due to jet lag so we just walked from the hotel in a random direction towards town. Industrial estates and residential areas slowly waking up with that feeling all your senses are telling you this place is totally new to you. Just spent the whole day without a plan stopping where we wanted, getting lost. That’s the sound of ‘Kaputt’.



The fact he put a song called ‘Bangkok’ on the next one was neat, but ‘Poison Season’ didn’t transport me - it was too diverse in style and didn’t flow. Great album but there didn’t seem to be an underlying world of a soundscape lurking beneath the individual songs.



This album reminds me more of the last night I spent in Singapore, the missus and myself went to check Little India and it was a bit shit so we just walked around the city, grabbing a beer, looking at all the strange mix of skyscrapers and construction. That’s the sound of ‘Ken’ for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

‘Kaputt’ is more mystical for me, like Bangkok.



This is more cool and sleek, with more modern or retro modern architecture.



Basically both remind me of exploring an unknown city. None of his other albums create that feeling for me.



Also I got no Destroyer vibe from Vancouver sadly.

Album Rating: 4.0

So yeah this is really good. Better than poison season.

Album Rating: 4.5

I’m with you Ed.



If someone digs ‘Kaputt’ then I can’t see how they wouldn’t feel pretty similar towards this.



Even better, this definitely has enough about itself to be far from a ‘Kaputt’ retread.

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm missing some of the gorgeous instrumental parts like the intro to "Suicide Demo for Karen Walker", the perfect last 30 seconds of "Blue Eyes" or even the simple horn/guitar intro to "Downton".



But that guitar solo on La Regle du Jeu is something.

Album Rating: 4.5

It could have done with a ‘Laziest River’ and a few more instrumental passages. There are instrumental stretches here that pop out more on subsequent listens - in ‘Rome’ and ‘Tinseltown’ in particular.

Album Rating: 4.0

Laziest River remains untouched yeah, but that's alright. It isn't even an official Part of Destroyer and a pretty huge departure from the usual sound. That Song sounds like a Steve Reich song at times.

Album Rating: 4.0

Tinseltown is fucking fantastic.

Album Rating: 3.0

Tinseltown is stunning yeah, the "I was a dreamer / Watch me leave" part is the highlight of the album.

Album Rating: 3.0

If someone digs ‘Kaputt’ then I can’t see how they wouldn’t feel pretty similar towards this.

Even better, this definitely has enough about itself to be far from a ‘Kaputt’ retread.