Concert Review: Destroyer Bejar turned in a dream setlist for fans, exploring not only his best and newest, but other bright corners of his discography. Read More
Destroyer: Have We Met Have We Met is nearly impossible to want to exit once you’ve started to mentally map its sounds. Read More
Destroyer: City of Daughters/Thief (Reissue) 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. Read More
Concert Review: Destroyer Many of Bejar’s new songs have already burrowed themselves into the Destroyer canon. Read More
Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2011! Five years is an eternity in the life of a record. Read More
Rediscover: Destroyer: This Night Destroyer was once classified as “folk rock” and constantly compared to David Bowie. Read More
Destroyer: Poison Season Dan Bejar has an ear for melancholy, and every record he’s ever made as Destroyer refracts sadness in new shades. Read More
Destroyer: Five Spanish Songs [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 … Read More
Concert Review: Destroyer/Sandro Perri 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, … Read More
The Top 20 Albums of 2011 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 … Read More
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review