On kaputt, bejar swung destroyer for a soft rock left turn that gave depth to his eccentric perspective by placing it in a new context. Around the release of new album, ken, destroyers dan bejar talks irony. Apr 12, 20 though it is easy to imagine him recoiling in horror from the appellation, dan bejar is quintessentially a songwriters songwriter. The song bay of pigs inspired pitchfork to declare bejar a songwriter of the highest order. If we just stopped to think about it for a second wed realise destroyer s dan bejar is one of the finest singersongwriters we have. Mar 30, 2020 destroyer is a canadian rock band from vancouver, british columbia fronted by singersongwriter dan bejar and formed in 1995.
The hope and despair of destroyers music the ringer. Destroyer s have we met is dan bejar s best album since 2011s kaputt. Kaputt is a genuine classic, unlike anything any other artist. Destroyer biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Facebook instagram youtube linkedin pdf of the newspaper. I dont think ive ever sounded that intimate and personal before, bejar says. In 2002, vancouver indie savant dan bejar, better known as destroyer, released the sprawling this night. The same day, bejar will release a twosong 12 companion piece to the album. Indiefolk destroyer official discography 10 albums. Destroyer pulls out all the stops on poison season.
In 1998, bejar added a rhythm section and took it into the studio for the first time. All through the back rooms of the world at night, admiring. Its easy to feel a little lost in the new destroyer album, kaputt. Sometime last year, i discovered that the original name for the wild ones one of the great englishlanguage ballads of the last 100 years or so was ken.
Fabiola carranza it took dan bejar four and a half years and a dozen musicians, including a small orchestra, to put out destroyer. Destroyer s crimson tide is a painterly synthrock opus. An interview with destroyer s dan bejar patrick clarke, january 27th, 2020 00. Destroyers have we met is dan bejars best album since 2011s kaputt. Dan bejar started destroyer as a solo project in vancouver in 1995. Destroyers dan bejar talks his new album have we met and recording vocals at his kitchen table.
Dan bejar s songs often sound like part of the soundtrack to a movie that exists only in his mind. In classic pop, destroyers dan bejar finds a new voice. Oct 06, 2011 bejar is flatout admitting that hes gone delusional with the selfreferential torrent of lyrics, hes carried away once again and he doesnt want to be rescued. Faceculture spoke with dan about taking a break from his own songs, kaputt, the role of singer, poison. Destroyer in 10 songs find the complete solo itinerary below. Chinarro covers that, in its interpretations of the originals, veered swiftly from disco to. Destroyer is a canadian indie rock band from vancouver, british columbia fronted by singersongwriter dan bejar and formed in the early to mid1990s.
In classic pop, destroyer s dan bejar finds a new voice. Dan bejar on the encroaching menace of his 12th destroyer. Though it is easy to imagine him recoiling in horror from the appellation, dan bejar is quintessentially a songwriters songwriter. January 25, 2011 dan bejar reveals the story behind his favorite track from his bands new album, kaputt. Destroyer is effectively dan bejar from vancouver, who since 1995 has steadily garnered fans of indie rockshoegazing grooves. Destroyers dan bejar discusses his eighties influences. Daniel bejar is an independent artist from new york city, usa. Bands that sound like destroyer but dont rhyme or rhyme.
Destroyer s dan bejar between his exploits with the canadian band new pornographers and his solo project, destroyer, dan bejar has been an undeniably influential presence in the indie rock world. Dan bejar frontman of the canadian indie rock band destroyer. When hes not resurrecting his role as a fringe member of the new. His next two releases, poison season and ken, seemed a conscious recalibration from this bejar didnt go experimental exactly, but appeared to use the same tools to increasingly unruly effect. Never one to be pegged to any particular music styles, dan bejar has produced another classic destroyer album. Dan bejar has been producing records under the destroyer moniker for the better part of the past decade and a half. In trouble in dreams, the 2008 followup to rubies, dan bejar the creative force behind destroyer further mined his hipliterate, postfolk explorations. Actually, just one sock will do, but it must be solid green. His is a body of work that consistently flouts convention in favor of musical leaps of faith, statements of purpose cloaked in. Sep 08, 2015 video interview with singersongwriter dan bejar from the canadian indie rock band destroyer. Last friday, a new destroyer album, have we met, was released.
Dan bejar seems omnipresent on destroyer s first album of the 2020s, moving through the arrangements at his own whim. As he has for nearly 25 years, dan bejar has managed to make an album that is bleak, hilarious, exceedingly lovely, and more than a. Dan bejars complicated relationship with, and frequent subversion of, pop conventions has always been a defining aspect of his music. First item on the magnificent album kaputt destroyer with a pop jazz base, through the soft rock and some business and usual style of dan bejar, this album placed its. Rock, pop tracklist destroyer is a canadian indie rock band from vancouver, british columbia fronted by singersongwriter dan bejar and formed in the early to mid1990s. Have we met explores similar sonic territory to 2011s kaputt and 2017s ken. Though each destroyer album has its own, distinct sonic identity, from the midiheavy your blues to the lounge jazzpop of kaputt, all feature dense lyrics entrenched in metaphors and labyrinths.
Dan bejar initially conceived of have we met as a y2k album. An 80sstyle noir flick, maybe, set in some retrofuturistic cityscape where wet pavement. Dan bejar seems omnipresent on destroyers first album of the 2020s. Kaputt also includes ruminations on american communism, the pointlessness of writing songs and much more. Dan bejar s destroyer return with their 12th studio album, have we met, and plenty of urgency in their step. Laura snapes of nme called it daniel bejars finest work to date, and excessive, but. Destroyer s dan bejar on weaving nightmares at his kitchen table. Jan 24, 2011 for destroyer, this sound is new, and its there for a reason. His present trajectory began with kaputt, the 2011 album that proved destroyer s most widely disseminated and resonant so far. With have we met, dan bejar is now thirteen albums deep into his career as destroyer, and rather than ploughing ahead into the 2020s with some new thing, hes finishing his.
Rather than continuing to embrace the folk, glam, baroque. Albums include kaputt, destroyer s rubies, and poison season. Foolsong, which i actually wrote 10 years ago around the same time i was making kaputt. Aug 20, 2015 in classic pop, destroyer s dan bejar finds a new voice. Find the complete the destroyer book series listed in order. Dan bejar has been recording albums under the name destroyer for 15 years. He is known as a member of vancouver indie rock band the new pornographers, and has released material as the frontman of his band destroyer. Dan bejar s last destroyer album was 2011s excellent kaputt. May 21, 2015 its been four years since the release of destroyer s magnificent kaputt, which is quite possibly the best album of his long career. It was a towering, obscure record that pushed bejar s knotted lyrics, yelping vocals, and. When i was younger i loved torrents of language and it was enough just to. Destroyer songs are characterized by abstract, poetic lyrics and idiosyncratic vocals. This epiphanic moment i was physically struck by this information led to its appropriation for a set of songs seething with dark knowledge, as bejar peeks behind.
N o one could ever accuse sometime new pornographer dan bejar of following a linear career path with his destroyer. Midway through the luscious and foreboding have we met, dan bejar s th fulllength album under the name destroyer, we encounter a song called the television music supervisor. In the process he created the album of the millennium. Video interview with singersongwriter dan bejar from the canadian indie rock band destroyer. In 2011, destroyer released kaputt, a record that seemed to cement bejar s place as a veteran of the indiefolk pantheon alongside contemporaries like jonathan richman and howe gelb. N o one could ever accuse sometime new pornographer dan bejar of following a linear career path with his destroyer project. The bands discography draws on a variety of musical influences, resulting read more. Dan bejar has described kaputt, the critically and commercially successful 2011 album from his project destroyer, as having accidentally locked into an early 2010s zeitgeist. His first album, well build them a golden bridge, was an electric folk record, setting the stage for the early bowie comparisons that were certain to follow his particular vocal style. Destroyer balances eccentricity with accessibility on have. Justly concerned about poetrys place in pop music and aware of history and heritage, his last album, the new age ambientmeetsroxy music outing kaputt, finally gained him the kind of fawning attention his luxuriously upholstered music has always deserved. Destroyer poison season 2015 flac 4 torrent download locations destroyer poison season 2015 flac other 1 day destroyer poison season 2015 music. Dan s fourtrack recordings were full of crazy sounds and ideas, recalls john collins, a mainstay of destroyer s revolving lineups over the years.
Oct 17, 2017 destroyer songs dont lend themselves to easy blackandwhite interpretation. Expanding his lineup and sound on varied releases over time, he also made albums with the new pornographers, swan lake, and hello, blue roses. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, midi, yacht rock, and even underground spanish independent artists, bejar was proclaimed rocks exiled king by the fader. Destroyers ken, though, showcases the most commercially appealing elements of bejars oeuvrethe 1980s nostalgia of kaputt and the muscular power pop of his work with the new pornographersin an. The immediate surprise of kaputt, the new album from dan bejars destroyer, is the outre instrumentation of quiet storm and early 80s soft rock. If kaputt s followup, poison season, isnt quite the abstruse twofingerstosuccess gesture its been painted as in some quarters, its certainly a noticeably different album. Press each album from destroyer dan bejar s idiosyncratic, often impenetrable, longrunning artrock outfit tends to be pretty distinct from the last. Destroyer has joined his cryptic lyrics to some of the most unfashionable sounds imaginable.
On august 28, he returns with the double lp poison season via merge in the u. I had an epiphany, i was physically struck by this information. Features news sessions tracks albums photos events. Destroyers dan bejar talks have we met rolling stone. Shapeshifting canadian pop craftsman daniel bejar s ninth studio album under the destroyer moniker added a whole lot of bryan ferry to a pot already boiling over with copious amounts of bowie. Destroyer is a canadian alternative rock band from vancouver, british columbia fronted by singersongwriter dan bejar and formed in 1995. Destroyer s ken, though, showcases the most commercially appealing elements of bejar s oeuvrethe 1980s nostalgia of kaputt and the muscular power pop of his work with the new pornographersin an. Destroyers dan bejar has established himself as one of the best, and most. Destroyers dan bejar serenades the apocalypse pitchfork. Eccentric lyricism takes a backseat in destroyer s chinatown, but the song leads to. The bands discography draws on a variety of musical influences, resulting in albums that can sound markedly distinct from one another. Dan bejar had been searching for a way forward since kaputt. Destroyers latest album is an unexpected change of pace from dan bejar and the gang. Previous to ken, the pinnacle of destroyer s output was 2011s kaputt, the muchheralded musical turningpoint that found bejar repeatedly intoning the names of british music magazines on its seminal title track sounds, smash hits, melody maker, nme all sound like a dream to me.
One thing you can say for destroyer, dan bejar is never content to rest on his laurels. With the triumphant poison season, destroyers dan bejar. Shop vinyl and cds and complete your destroyer collection. Reviews of kaputt by destroyer, ninth album from dan bejar under his destroyer alias, covering everything from electronica to acidjazz. Kaputt is the ninth album by canadian band destroyer.
For kaputt bejar mines the backwaters of pop and rock from the late 70s and the early 80s. For me, its a definitely contender for top album of 2011. Though bejar is the only consistent member of the band, the. Since the release of 20s five spanish songs covers ep, dan. As he prepares to release have we met, his twelfth album as destroyer, dan bejar speaks to patrick clarke about his darkest, grooviest and perhaps best record to date. Great deals on one book or all books in the series. Destroyers ken is dan bejars best since his masterpiece. New album poison season retains the sumptuous melancholy of 2011s kaputt. If kaputts followup, poison season, isnt quite the abstruse twofingerstosuccess gesture its been painted as in some quarters, its certainly a noticeably different album.
Dan bejar started destroyer as a solo homerecording project in the early to midnineties. He found it in his first love, new order, and the result, destroyers new album, ken, is bejars best work since his masterpiece. Eclectic and eccentric longrunning project of songwriter dan bejar, also of the new pornographers. Dan bejar is on the hunt for a pair of green socks. Its for his 11yearold daughter, gloria, who is working on a school projecta. Destroyers have we met is dan bejars best album since. According to dan bejar, the title to destroyer s 12th, and possibly best, album came to him upon learning that it was the original name for the ballad the wild ones. He was already active during the era but not heard overhead in a cafe or salon, which is perhaps what the idea of the y2k sound evokes nearly two decades later. With kaputt, dan bejar unveils the latest chapter in the everevolving musical. Destroyer is a canadian rock band from vancouver, british columbia fronted by singersongwriter dan bejar and formed in 1995. Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, destroyer s dan bejar offers the following.
Jan 25, 2011 destroyer shifts gears again with kaputt. Dan bejar s complicated relationship with, and frequent subversion of, pop conventions has always been a defining aspect of his music. Dan bejar seems omnipresent on destroyer s first album of the 2020s. Just four years ago, dan bejar cemented his status as one of the most swoonedover singersongwriters working, thanks to kaputt, the ninth album released under his destroyer. The bands discography draws on a variety of musical influences, resulting in albums that can sound markedly distinct from one. Then bejar said he didnt feel comfortable singing in english anymore and we got five spanish songs, an ep of sr. With kaputt, dan bejar unveils the latest chapter in the everevolving musical adventure that is destroyer. Over the last two decades, dan bejar has assembled a beguiling and occasionally maddening body of work under that. Sing, dont sing, hate it, dont understand it, dont care to understand it, whatever, but if youre gonna dismiss it then dont tell him, hes busy being carried away by the music. There are pillowy synthesizers, mellow and decidedly unrock and roll saxophones, thick, unfretted bass and not much guitar. Destroyers crimson tide is a painterly synthrock opus.
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