Bejar turned in a dream setlist for fans, exploring not only his best and newest, but other bright corners of his discography.

Have We Met is nearly impossible to want to exit once you’ve started to mentally map its sounds.

Do you like Destroyer for Kaputt or for Bejar’s gnarled, uncompromising vision? Listening to these reissues might be the best way to find out.

Many of Bejar’s new songs have already burrowed themselves into the Destroyer canon.

Five years is an eternity in the life of a record.

Destroyer was once classified as “folk rock” and constantly compared to David Bowie.

Dan Bejar has an ear for melancholy, and every record he’s ever made as Destroyer refracts sadness in new shades.

[xrr rating=3.75/5]If Daniel Bejar has taught his audience anything in his two-decades-plus career, it is that they should expect the unexpected from the artist. Destroyer’s 2011 LP Kaputt was enigmatic, atmospheric and attractively cheesy. Somehow the Canadian singer-songwriter made the sounds of 80s adult-contemporary music sound like poetry, using smooth-jazz saxophones and mechanical synths as colors in a complex, sublime …

I swear that Dan Bejar was drunk last time I saw Destroyer play Portland. During the show, coming last year just a few months following the release of Kaputt, Bejar muttered into his microphone, clutched his mic stand for support and sat on the edge of the stage, quaffing beer during the song’s instrumental interludes. His songs already somewhat boozy, …

20. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life [Matador] The most ambitious band to vaguely fit under the description of “hardcore punk” since Refused dissolved, Toronto sextet Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this year’s David Comes to Life. A rock opera is precisely the sort of thing punks set out to kill, but David Comes to Life never wants …