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I was twenty years old in 1992 and so on la da da la da da



honestly if we want to talk about this being discount Kaputt, I'd cut it slack if it had a discount Bay of Pigs to go with it



(and considering you have about twenty years at the most on me, I'd imagine you've been listening to Bejar for a while)

Album Rating: 4.5

‘Rubies’ was my second Destroyer, would’ve picked it up in 2012 sometime. It has the best ‘side’ of Destroyer in the form of Side A, Side B genuinely bores me a little bit, the Pavement sounding tunes (Priest’s Knees and 3000 Flowers) don’t really work for me and the slow songs sound like boring, very rambling Streethawk era tunes with nicer production.

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the closer on that is a bit of an anti-climatic finish, I'll give you that



Streethawk is a solid 3.5 so idk



you're asking me about The Laziest River, how about Loscil's Rubies?

Album Rating: 4.5

Not heard.

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ah, so I'll trade you Loscil for River



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEw9JEElCQs



Like River was the third side on Kaputt, Loscil was the last side on Rubies (until the 2012 Merge reissue which formatted it like Kaputt and put it as the third side)

Album Rating: 4.5

You're also underrating 'Streethawk' a little, that one has the youthful thing going for it, a little bit Ziggy



I'll check it out later, on a real Destroyer kick now.



I'd say just see if this new album grows on you some more, builds its own atmosphere, it can take a while with Bejar.

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probably am, although I don't get the urge to listen to that one as much

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give me a couple of weeks to shake off this burnout and I'll get a guide running once I run through the other albums (plus i have a definitive format now so the sylvian guide may be an anomaly compared to any future guides)

Album Rating: 4.5

Top 20 Destroyer songs:



1. Chinatown

2. Bay of Pigs

3. Suicide Demo for Kara Walker

4. Sky's Grey

5. Foam Hands

6. Your Blood

7. A Light Travels Down the Catwalk

8. Bangkok

9. Notorious Lightning

10. Painter in Your Pocket

11. Kaputt

12. The Sublimation Hour

13. Certain Things You Ought to Know

14. Rome

15. Girl in a Sling

16. European Oils

17. My Favorite Year

18. Saw You at the Hospital

19. Virgin with a Memory

20. Rubies



Something like that, roughly in order

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like I'd say give me two weeks minimum



got a folk anthology and a guide to work on (choosing from ryuichi, eno, stooges, or velvets -- with my new format planned, there shall be no need to make several articles for ryuichi or eno if it's going to be a guide for newcomers. my decision is to make a sprawling guide for shorter ones like sylvian's if i deem it necessary, otherwise it'll be a briefer history, some notable songs, the recommended album along with the usual playlist)

Virgin with a memory? Seedy as fuck.

Album Rating: 4.5

He’s a fruity one is Bejar



‘That slender-wristed white translucent business passes for love these days,

Mush-head genius passes for love these days’



The lyrics of a dude who’s spent far too long on XHamster

Sun in the Sky though? that's my pick for Poison Season best

Album Rating: 4.5

Sun in the Sky never stood out too much for me, the run from ‘Solace’s Bride’ to ‘Sun’ works well though

Album Rating: 3.0

Anyone else feel like the mixing on this is kind of poor? I'm not usually one to complain about brickwalling but something here feels a bit off from that perspective.

Album Rating: 4.5

I was thinking that was on purpose - that sort of retro '80s computer game thing

I wouldn't know

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, perhaps it's an aesthetic choice. This one definitely sounds a bit more retro 80s than Kaputt did - I feel like that one filters the 80s influences through a more modern aesthetic than this one does.



Album is good but so far not blowing me away like Kaputt did.

Dang it doofus posted before me

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that he did