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Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
| Avclub |
| With a series of increasingly commanding albums, Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar has been doing more than would seem could be done to salvage the concept of ennui. The theme could play out in one of his songs: a semi-lionized, semi-laughable anachronism that gets misused, pretentiously overregarded, laughed at for the wrong reasons, mistaken for something less than serious. The condition could inspire glassy-eyed stares, or an album-opening line like this: "Okay, fine, even the sky looks like wine."...full text |
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| Cokemachineglow |
| There’s a scene in last year’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story where the title character (an impressionable, affable John C. Reilly) goes through a Dylan phase, spouting off lyrics as impenetrable as this night advancing on. It’s a poke at the songwriter’s mid-career obscurist bent, but is it more satire or tribute? Or something else entirely? Don’t ask Dan Bejar. The man behind Destroyer has made a career on penning lyrics inscrutably filled with pop culture and metatextual references, exotic locales and fictional characters torn from urban bohemia and medieval castles alike. Bejar’s stuff is bursting with even more non-sequitors than old Bob, who at least had the courtesy to write the occasional linear narrative....full text |
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| Courant |
| Even those who don't know Thomas Walsh — a Dubliner who's spent the past decade quietly amassing a catchy back catalog — should be intrigued by the guest list of his fourth album as Pugwash. "Eleven Modern Antiquities" features contributions from, among others, Michael Penn, the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, and Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC. As power-pop pedigrees go, one could certainly do worse....full text |
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