Destroyer

Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 2, 2023 · Comments off

Destroyer’s latest album, Labyrinthitis, brims with mystic and intoxicating terrain, the threads of Dan Bejar’s notes woven through by a trove of allusions at once eerily familiar and intimately perplexing. The record circuitously draws ever inward, each turn offering giddy surprise, anxious esoterica, and thumping emotionality at equal odds.

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Destroyer – ken (Deluxe Version) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 13, 2022 · Comments off

Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for “The Wild Ones” (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It’s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe “TheWild Ones” speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think “ken” also means “to know.” ken was produced by Josh Wells of Black Mountain, who has been the drummer in Destroyer since 2012. The album was recorded in its entirety in the jam space/studio space that the group calls The Balloon Factory. However, unlike Poison Season, ken was not recorded as a “band” record, though everyone in the band does make an appearance.

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Destroyer – Have We Met (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 13, 2022 · Comments off

Dan bejar has announced that his thirteenth album as Destroyer, titled have we met, will be released on 31st January 2020 via Dead Oceans have we met, as Dan bejar puts it, ‘came together in such a crazy way – all equal parts ecstasy and terror’. Initially conceived (but quickly ditched) as a Y2K album, bejar was without a clear concept in mind. So he said “fuck it” And let it all rip while brainstorming at home.

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