Destroyer: Artist You Should Know
February 12th, 2012 by admin
(Since Destroyer’utes show at the Troubadour tonight comes out, those who missed out on seat tickets can enjoy a couple tunes and some choice words from KCRW Disk jockey Raul Campos)
I have to give credit where credit is due.
Eric J Lawrence, each of our trusty KCRW Music Librarian and human music encyclopedia, turned me on this artist when this individual included the song “Chinatown” on a CD of recent adds to the music library.
To my surprise, we already have more than a half-dozen full length albums and various Airs from Destroyer, but I’m simply learning about the front man, Dan Bejar.
I can see why it didn’t cross my radar. The latest record, Kaputt is quite different than his earlier work. It’s still beginners guitar driven indie rock, nevertheless he goes in a different route with this one. Bejar is a collaborator with all the New Pornographers, but this recording is a definite departure off their traditionally harder sound. Together with “Kaputt”, he’s experimented with and included much more melodic, electronic rhythms, along with different instrumentation.
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I really dig the melodies and harmonies which prevail in tracks just like “Blue Eyes” and “Chinatown”. His vocals, despite the fact that they’re soft-spoken, are actually very edgy.
There are also a couple songs I think are wonderful but due to language troubles, I can’t play them in air. I’ll let you read the full length and find those tiny nuggets.
The album has tremendous depth in the songwriting, paralleling a number of the issues of doom and gloom in Malaparte’s Kaputt, which is the place that the title for Destroyer’s Ninth record comes from.
It truly is wonderful work of expression coupled with stellar musical production.
– Raul Campos
I have to give credit where credit is due.
Eric J Lawrence, each of our trusty KCRW Music Librarian and human music encyclopedia, turned me on this artist when this individual included the song “Chinatown” on a CD of recent adds to the music library.
To my surprise, we already have more than a half-dozen full length albums and various Airs from Destroyer, but I’m simply learning about the front man, Dan Bejar.
I can see why it didn’t cross my radar. The latest record, Kaputt is quite different than his earlier work. It’s still beginners guitar driven indie rock, nevertheless he goes in a different route with this one. Bejar is a collaborator with all the New Pornographers, but this recording is a definite departure off their traditionally harder sound. Together with “Kaputt”, he’s experimented with and included much more melodic, electronic rhythms, along with different instrumentation.
Audio clip: Adobe Display Player (version 9 or over) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
I really dig the melodies and harmonies which prevail in tracks just like “Blue Eyes” and “Chinatown”. His vocals, despite the fact that they’re soft-spoken, are actually very edgy.
There are also a couple songs I think are wonderful but due to language troubles, I can’t play them in air. I’ll let you read the full length and find those tiny nuggets.
The album has tremendous depth in the songwriting, paralleling a number of the issues of doom and gloom in Malaparte’s Kaputt, which is the place that the title for Destroyer’s Ninth record comes from.
It truly is wonderful work of expression coupled with stellar musical production.
– Raul Campos
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gha on 02.19.12 ()
This man is cool, because he plays playstation 3
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