P revised January 25 at Merge Kaputt is the ninth album destroyer, a project of Canada from Vancouver Dan Bejar .
For those who still do not know, he is a member of The New Pornographers, where he wrote 3 songs per album. Like many groups with members with a strong personality, an aura or something that makes me want to attach myself to them (as in Teenage Fanclub). In the New Pornographers, each in its many and varied projects, more or less interesting but Destroyer is clearly the best of all. Anecdote: When I was in England Bowl II, I was chatting with people during international concerts and it shocked me to say that Destroyer was 100 times better than the solo albums of AC Newman, finally they are 2 projects that n have not all the same target.
After a multitude of plays, I realized that I was dealing with an exceptional songwriter and not just a side project that only bitter experience of the Canadian scene. After
fifteen years in the service of music, we note that since the 2000s Destroyer is a constant output album verging on perfection .
Tracklist:
Chinatown Blue Eyes
Savage Night At The Opera Suicide
Demo For Kara Walker
Poor
In Love Kaputt
Song For America
Bay Of Pigs
Dan Bejar is above all someone very enigmatic and iconoclast. A submachine gun with words makes you sound the words with the melody as person in the world, with a singing style that I always found pretty badass .
Through his group, he has experienced everything: the lo-fi acoustic songwriting debut, the pop songs with musicians of all kinds but in recent years he has made a fool for love songs most wanted and ambient.
reminder, Dan had caught everyone short in 2009 leaving the EP Bay Of Pigs , a kind of music but mostly UFO un virage assez violent depuis l'excellent Trouble In Dreams en 2007. On se souvient qu'il avait sorti Your Blues en 2004 qui comportait déjà des sonorités très vaporeuses et électroniques.
Depuis Bay Of Pigs , il a sorti l'EP Archer On The Beach fin 2010 avec la collaboration de Tim Hecker et Loscil, possédant une ambiance proche de Bay Of Pigs : très lente, posant un décor post-apocalyptique et une douce sensation que le temps s'arrête pendant une dizaine de minutes.
Avec Kaputt , on pouvait s'attendre à la continuité de cette sonorité puisque Bay Of Pigs Closing this album.
The first single was available Chinatown and found its actual experiments through electronic drum machine, synths that create this sound slick but also things that we had not heard so far and Dan will be used in abundance on this album: the saxophone and female vocals.
This sax will accompany us throughout the album, giving her spiritual and jazzy disc. Dan's voice is much more withdrawn, leaving more spaces to hazy atmosphere that gives off its tracks and especially female vocals like Blue Eyes or Downtown , atmosphere replays of racing games on Playstation.
Kaputt wants to be a disc paying tribute to 80s synth and the similarity of pieces with Roxy Music is obvious.
space-rock ambience even reaches its maximum on Suicide Demo For Kara Walker where the listener is flat free for over 2 minutes. 6 minutes remaining are concentrated among the whispers of magic Dan, flute and the backing female vocal: quite a marvel.
Personally, a piece like this one has a rather exhilarating, I almost had an orgasm canal.
The feeling of being in another world continues with the title track Kaputt , very tasty, but honestly that sounds like music for films that went on the 6 on Sunday night.
clip transposed exactly my feelings vis-à-vis that title: the dream, beautiful babes, fog and the feeling of regret for a goal unreached.
Song For America is the logical continuation of Kaputt , where he could already speak some "Song For America" can find rare notes of guitars in this album.
Oh sounds like a dream to me .... (This sax is totally infectious )
How to end a perfect album already? The vast Bay Of Pigs has shoulders strong enough to play this role. How to describe it? Long, stunning, disturbing, dancing, just mind-blowing.
Verdict :
Kaputt, dans l'idée, est assez similaire à son prédécesseur Trouble In Dreams . Ils ont pour vocation de plonger l'auditeur dans une autre dimension, de le faire rêver pendant des longues minutes.
Kaputt est un album différent, pas très représentatif de ses anciens albums et qui n'a strictement rien à voir avec ce que les auditeurs de Destroyer avait l'habitude d'entendre.
I do not advise people not familiar with the work of Dan Bejar, it is best to start with or Streethawk Destroyer's Rubies, which are more accessible.
This disc atmospheric air and hovering is the missing link to his discography to consider it as one of the greatest songwriters in the world, such as Iron and Wine or Sufjan Stevens.
The big difference lies in sounds, Destroyer is not folk but closer to Bowie and the piano-rock.
At first I had great difficulty with his voice is a bit peculiar. I can even say now that I listened not even his songs with the New Pornographers, what was still con "Yeah, the guy with the voice of alcohol is not"
In 2010, there were many great albums but I did not find any album that leaves me speechless after listening to a "oh fuck it's huge ".
Kaputt is slap the beginning of this year that I had not felt last year but I do not have the knowledge musical enough to fully describe this album, his influences and references.
Like his sense of detail, we feel that every sound is not there by chance.
The only thing I see is the top of my 2500 plays Destroyer that Kaputt is a masterpiece, a giant disk again, as his former productions.
Ah yes: Dan Bejar is a genius, thing I would never say enough about this blog but trust me.
10/10
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