I like this new Dan Bejar-penned-press-release thing, which kinda reads like a Chelsey Minnis poem, even as it mentions the superiority of poetry (DB "is" a poet)--
Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango in Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what's to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… TheLinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…
--and speaking of Gurlesque artists, I am especially excited for what seems to be a collaboration with Kara Walker!
Tracklist
01 Chinatown [live version mp3]
02 Blue Eyes
03 Savage Night at the Opera
04 Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
05 Poor in Love
06 Kaputt
07 Downtown
08 Song for America
09 Bay of Pigs (Detail)
Predictions: "Song for America" will be brutal, and "Bay of Pigs (Detail)" will please the completist, besides continuing the visual art thing "Suicide Demo for Kara Walker" kicks off. (Also funny to see a real woman's name in a Destroyer song.)
Other stuff of note: All Destroyer covers seem to be black-and-white now, maybe also Kara Walker-influenced.
Bay of Pigs (2009) and Archer on the Beach (out in two weeks)
Other stuff of note: All Destroyer covers seem to be black-and-white now, maybe also Kara Walker-influenced.
Bay of Pigs (2009) and Archer on the Beach (out in two weeks)
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