DESTROYER - YOUR BLUES

I think it's great, even down to the artwork--a candidate for the difficult album thread. The Smog comparison makes sense; and I said somewhere else on ILM I'm reminded of Scott Walker. It doesn't sound much like that, excepting the highly orchestrated synthesized bits, but the mood it strikes--languid, surreal, and sophisticated--is similar.

New Destroyer: way better than "This Night," still not as great as "Streethawk" I don't think but it's early yet. Like tyler, I did a LOT of laughing during my first listen, which seemed a good sign to me.

I was lucky enough to get a copy a few months ago. And I have to say it really has aged nicely. I may still like 'Streethawk' the best, but this is a very close second. Martin at Merge Records warned early that it's one of those albums you just can't stop playing....I have to agree completely with him. It's a very satisfying album to sing along to (alone).

What the hell is Dan gonna come up with next time around?

Is this the bjork record for destroyer?

weird. i had a song stuck in my head for a lot of last week, and only just realised this evening that it was 'an actor's revenge' from your blues. i specifically men the "budum budum budum budah" bit. starting to see the point of this record. there's a lot to sink your teeth into, and it's ambitious enough that i can forgive the missteps.

So last night in Montreal, the third or maybe fourth song of Spoon's set was (triumphantly, awesomely) "It's Gonna Take An Airplane"...

when will destroyer release a new record?
i miss the long "rubies" thread...

I'm still looking for Pointe Saint-Claire.

Wonder if this record is seen as a precursor to the slicker records from Kaputt and onwards, or if it's seen as a peculiar diversion that wasn't revisited.

great aLbum

Dan singing “you can go your own way” in the music lovers always cracks me up

a precursor to the slicker records from Kaputt and onwards, or if it's seen as a peculiar diversion that wasn't revisited.

well, it can be both, can't it? it's the most direct predecessor to kaputt & onwards, but still very much its own weird thing that he's never fully returned to

lord knows that i’m trying

This is my favourite Destroyer album. Classic from start to finish, his best collection of melodies imo. What Road deathly underrated, should have come earlier in the sequencing of the album.

I’d rank his 4 main albums as:

1. Rubies = Kaputt
2. Your Blues
3. Streethawk

But they are pretty much in the same 9ish scale for me and they are great albums for different reasons.

Glad to see Your Blues is getting some love. Personally, I prefer it to any of his 2000s records.

classic record — I think it was the one that really convinced me of Bejar's genius, just so audacious and weird, but awesomely so. I interviewed him right when it came out, was funny how nervous he seemed about it. I think he used the phrase "career suicide."

I don't think of it as a precursor so much as a spur. Your Blues strove to be uncool and it coloured his lyrics so precisely, made his jokes hit different. Kaputt onward is cool and it's a different backdrop.

Any list of my top ten favourite Destroyer songs would be half songs from this album tho... "Notorious Lightning", "An Actor's Revenge", "It's Gonna Take An Airplane", "What Road" and "Certain Things You Oughta Know"

There is a momument
There is a place within it I have won
And there is victory at sea
And then there's the sun

it's definitely my favourite of his 00s albums too. i have a lot of love for those goofy default midi instruments

i do get the impression that kaputt was intended to be similarly uncool. despite being an admitted pop move, he seemed very caught off-guard by just how on-trend it ended up being. but in terms of affect, yeah i absolutely get what you mean

idk how i'd rank his albums, kaputt is solidly #1 and then there's an excellent second tier of your blues, poison season, have we met, and labyrinthitis. and then rubies and streethawk are good but i don't love them in the same way.

Just realised Bejar's trope to start off his albums with epic one phrase intro's.

"hey girl, common and take a whirl on my machine"
"oh notorious lightning, yes I had to ride you etc."
"dueling cyclones jackknife, they got eyes for your wife and the blood that lives in her heart"

If I had it my way, every album ever would start off like this. Then again, Destroyer's in the Temple might take the cake for best album intro and it eschews this rule.

Replace Certain Things with Music Lovers flamboyant and I'm with you.

Kaputt hasn't lasted for me. The sugar of it gets a bit too sickening after the 50th play. Except for Bay of Pigs, what an epic.

Your Blues = Streethawk
Kaputt = Rubies
This Night = Poison Season
the rest

His top albums are his most singable. Your Blues is such a great singalong on the open road trip

I wore skins. I didn't care who survived.
The band foretold trends from Spring of '85
They're calling it "The New Decay"
Hey, so am I.

Warm yourself by the fiery stage
Fiery cause I lit it
[midi fireball floats across the room]

Someone should run a poll of "shocking Destroyer vocal lines that come in as the instruments drop out before a massive instrumental breakdown or the like".

My vote goes to this one in Sublimation Hour
I guess the streets will suffice till everybody makes nice,
But there's a rumor going round even Destroyers have a price...

winner is right here

she needs release
she needs to be at home
with her father
the fucking maniac

*guitar solo*

yeah the maniac line! the solo! <3

idk how i'd rank his albums, kaputt is solidly #1 and then there's an excellent second tier of your blues, poison season, have we met, and labyrinthitis. and then rubies and streethawk are good but i don't love them in the same way.

This is pretty much exactly how I feel, with Kaputt, Your Blues, and Poison Season as firm top 3. I think a lot about how in interviews about Kaputt he said that that album is lyrically sui generis in his discography. I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said that he is always able to explain the meaning behind any line from any of his songs, but that he has no idea what any of the lyrics on Kaputt mean (with the exception of "Suicide Demo For Kara Walker"). Like he was channeling some kind of inscrutable muse on that one. And it makes sense given how lyrically sparse that record is compared to most of his other stuff

sounds, smash hits, melody maker, nme, all sounds like a dream to me

Who knew?

sounds, smash hits, melody maker, nme, all sounds like a dream to me

That's straight-up 80s anglophile nostalgia.

I didn't mean to divert the attention from Labyrinthitis, which is fantastic in its own regard.

The watercolours break is my break of choice on Rubies. The whole song builds to it, it comes so suddenly and with a nice subtlety to it that isn't common to Destroyer

Well some situations
Seek redressing
Some songs just
Go testing, testing,
I took a picture
I was sick of motion...
And wore her watercolours into the ocean

<i>I've</i>
<i>been</i>
<i>working on some open-ended shit</i>

well you get the point

honestly think this is my favorite destroyer record these days but I haven't really kept up with his post-2008 stuff

your blues, rubies, kaputt and poison season are all albums I consider his best at depending on my mood

honestly think this is my favorite destroyer record these days but I haven't really kept up with his post-2008 stuff

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, February 17, 2022 5:17 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you would probably enjoy poison season

the time (synth strings begin to rise) of your lives (still rising) has been had (almost there)
And your wives (...) have been (PEAK) Baaaaad!

God what an album