this is wonderful! i liked ken alright enough but the arrangement is a step up from anything on that
― ufo, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
What a weird video lol
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar initially conceived of Have We Met as a Y2K album. He was already active during the era but not heard overhead in a cafe or salon, which is perhaps what the idea of the Y2K sound evokes nearly two decades later. Bejar assigned frequent producer and bandmate John Collins the role of layering synth and rhythm sections over demos with the period-specific Björk, Air, and Massive Attack in mind, but he soon realized the sonic template was too removed from Destroyer’s own, and the idea of a concept was silly anyway. So he abandoned it and gave Collins the most timeless instruction of all: “Make it sound cool.”
this is from the press release and i'm kinda annoyed that he gave up on that idea because that sounds like a great reference point for a destroyer album to me! i'm happy enough with more of the sophisti-new order that's largely defined him this decade on "crimson tide" though
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
eheh it does sound cool !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
Rubies songwriting, Kaputt production.Sounds good to me.
― nostormo, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
lol at "make it sound cool" that's bejar in a nutshell
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't call this kaputt production at all, that slinky synth funk angle is v different
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
it's a little different to kaputt but the closest he's come to it since (not that he's strayed that far either). a bit more propulsive instead of the way kaputt luxuriates in the endlessly soloing guitars, trumpets, and saxes
i can easily imagine "make it sound... cooool!" as one of his lyrics
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
nice of him to make sure kaputt 2 is in a different decade so he can have two AotDs
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it doesn't sound like Kaputt. otm "more propulsive".Unfortunately the song is not very good, after listening to it a few times.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
yeah I'm not particularly enamored with this
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
i listened to it like 15 times yesterday so i think it's probably good
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
i guess i did the same with Times Square though and then never really got on board with that record
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmApPGE6Zio
this one's pretty good too, another synthpop track but with a different vibe to anything on ken
― ufo, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qcSbi9WrM
three for three
― ufo, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
Talking of synthesisers, any love for the 2022 album Labyrinthitis?
― giraffe, Thursday, 6 October 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
Destroyer "Have We Met" out 1/31/20
there was discussion in the have we met thread
i think it's probably his best since kaputt, though it notably falls off in the last two tracks
― ufo, Thursday, 6 October 2022 08:55 (one year ago) link
Ah thanks ufo. I'll head over there.
― giraffe, Thursday, 6 October 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link