Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
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Artist: DestroyerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- Blue Flower/Blue Flame
- Dark Leaves Form a Thread
- The State
- Foam Hands
- My Favorite Year
- Shooting Rockets from the Desk Of Night's Ape)
- Introducing Angels
- Rivers
- Leopard of Honor
- Plaza Trinidad
- Libby's First Sunrise
Free Music Notes for Trouble in Dreams
Free Music Review: Standard Magic
Hit: 5 Stars
Dan Bejar has been bringing superlative music to the indie scene for so long that it was just a matter of time before the critics ran out of words and got nervous. How long can somebody make music so soulful and intelligent before it became routine, before it just started to sound phoned in? The answer is not yet and maybe never. He has such an understanding of what makes his indie prog-pop rock works. He moves on a very fine edge. Too far one way and it is art for art's sake ( in other words, get ready to suffer) and, too far the other way and it is another puff piece that sounds fine but forgettable. The balance of quirk to craft is precise! The band here is tight and Dan's voice is mellowing into something which is nuanced but smooth. I am not even going to attempt to pick highlights. Like all good records, different musical and lyrical passages will jump out at you if you give the record the time to weave its magic. I believe that Trouble in Dreams is the ideal spot for the adventurous indie pop listener to jump in. This is a man and his band make the music they want and not giving a damn about current trends. Start here and work your way back. Just give it time. Soak in and get familiar. This is an album that gets better the more time you spend with it. It doesn't disappear into insignificance with knowledge. It just gets more grand with every spin.
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All hail Destroyer's ninth-or-so full-length, Trouble in Dreams. Many, many gosh-darn dudes go in for the "vaguely weird indie-rock music with oblique lyrics" schtick, and yet it's still an utter joy to hear Dan Bejar do it. He does it so well: if you close your eyes (or if your record collection doesn't go back before 1995), you might believe he invented this stuff. Overloaded, gorgeous, EBowed guitar work drips all over these songs. A few tunes suffer a tad from overly proggy, lurching rhythms, particular "Plaza Trinidad," on which Bejar's singing sounds like a parody of himself. It's totally Bowie-does-Shakespeare-in-the-park, but the over-the-top delivery saves it. "Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night's Ape)" is another head-scratcher, an overblown yacht-rock nightmare that begs to be part of a Paul Williams rock opera. But it's weirdly beautiful, and lacking in irony, so go ahead and put it on the mix tape for that barista you're crushing out on. All the lewd language, baroque pronunciation, and laconic pace keep songs like "Libby's First Sunrise" or "Leopard of Honor" from the radio waves and Target commercials they should rightfully rule, but that doesn't keep them from being among the best, smartest, already classic rock music of 2008. --Mike McGonigalThis release cements Vancouver, BC's Dan Bejar as an artist as quirky and enigmatic as David Bowie, as symphonic and grandiose as Scott Walker, and as quixotically literary as Bob Dylan. A collection of songs that is fresh and confounding, yet befitting the Destroyer canon. "Of all contemporary songwriters, he's been the biggest influence and inspiration. Because he is pretentious, but in a way that makes it into a game where we all get to pretend to be so grand" - Okkervil River's Will Sheff.
2008 release that cements Vancouver, BC's Dan Bejar as an artist as quirky and enigmatic as David Bowie, as symphonic and grandiose as Scott Walker, and as quixotically literary as Bob Dylan. A collection of songs that is fresh and confounding, yet befitting the Destroyer canon. "Of all contemporary songwriters, he's been the biggest influence and inspiration. Because he is pretentious, but in a way that makes it into a game where we all get to pretend to be so grand" - Okkervil River's Will Sheff.
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