Don’t try to figure out Dan Bejar’s next move. That’s part of the continuing appeal of Bejar’s band, Destroyer, which has put out nine studio albums since the mid-’90s, each with its own character and sound. The latest, “Kaputt” (Merge), is another detour in a career full of them. It explores more lushly textured, keyboard-heavy pop, topped by Bejar’s typically conversational lyrics — a droll mixture of observation, humor and loathing. Bejar, who also moonlights as a songwriter and singer in the indie-rock powerhouse New Pornographers, says he’s more like a musical curator than a musician when it comes to Destroyer albums. H
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Destroyer’s Dan Bejar: The wonder of making an album that ‘people actually like’
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 0
In a stunning, surprise blow to the English language, millions of teens and twenty-somethings will soon be screaming, “They playin’ my jam” countless times within three-minute spans all across the country.
The title of Wye Oak’s latest record, “Civilian,” announces a fairly integral debate waged over the album’s ten tracks– what exactly is normalcy, and does it exist objectively in our collective consciousness beyond abstraction? In the press release for Civilian, Jenn Wasner (one half of Wye Oak) indicates that she chose the title “because I believe everyone wants to be normal, but no one truly is.” While she is definitive in her statement, her lyrics on the album approach this discussion with far more ambiguity and nuance. In fact, Wa