Destroyer (4) – Kaputt

I just picked the 2xLP but it's got a different catalogue number and runouts, looks similar to the red variant release but mine is black. I'll try adding a new release when I can properly read the matrix run outs.

Utter brilliance. Robsol nails it. This is transcendental stuff. Time-warped and timeless. Someone in a parallel universe is humming one of these songs in their heads right now and trying to write it down. Leonard Cohen meets Steely Dan meets Lampchop meets Brian Ferry. Impossibly highly recommended. Daniel Bejar: f$cking genius. Essential.

Daniel Bejar wrote a song for America...who knew?

Every so often we are swept off our feet by love, by music, by confessions of the weak and the lullabies of stoned voices. Kaputt is quite simply a perfect storm of those many moments in our lives... if ever lived. Destroyer's songs explore our modern society, they forsake the media that controls us, shames the delusions of an empire and feeds our devilish vices. The music that saturates Destroyer's words is compelling, sometimes brilliant, carrying the vocals with sophisticated synth lines, foot tapping drum kicks, perfected gentle guitar riffs that break through the clean layers when called on, some serious sax, all beautifully balanced and composed. Then there are some songs on Kaputt that could easily be dismissed because of their whimsical "soft jazz" eruptions, but Destroyer pulls it off and creates something radiant in the sea of commercial shit. This is modern poetry like nothing else I've ever heard before and I don't give a damn if you love it or loathe it, because it was salvation for me.