Your Blues

Destroyer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B0001EFV72
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #72 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Chamber Pop

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jarring and Fantastic, March 19, 2004

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J. T. Winsor (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Blues (Audio CD)

OK, I'm a superfan. That said, when I first heard songs on this album, I was disappointed, I was thinking this was going to be "This Night" part II, fantastic at points, but as a whole left wanting. After I finally got the entire album and gave it a few spins, I have to say that I was wrong with my initial judgment. This album is just too much to get in a single listen, in that way it is more like "Streethawk: A Seduction". I started out with a couple of songs that were accessible. "Its Gonna Take an Airplane", with a sing song melody, synth flute, and hushed vocals found it's way inside my head almost instantly. The song "Your Blues" contains a signature coda, with the repeated plea "Lord know's I've been trying" over a background of synth, muted Coronet, and delayed piano, again it's infectious. After I had tackled the accessible ones, other more obtuse songs started to rise up and force me to take notice. "Notorious Lightning" is a standout, posing scenes of young players and their frivolities, with the music building to an anthemic shout of "and someone has to fall, before someone goes free!", possibly freed from the bonds of their immaturity. In many ways it reminds me of Streethawk's absolutely brilliant "The Bad Arts", except Bejar now realizes there is no need for an actual explosion. The instrumentation of the album is limited to synths and a nylon stringed guitar, which at times give the album a feeling that it came from 1984 not 2004, "Certain Things You Ought to Know" could have replaced The Dream Academy's version of "Please Please Please" on the Ferris Bueller's soundtrack. Once again Bejar lyrically drops props to the giants upon whose shoulders he stands, in this one we get from my untrained ears... Fleetwood Mac, The Smiths, and possibly Elvis Presley by way of the Pet Shop Boys, and Willie Nelson.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New sounds, yet stamped all over with Bejar's mastery, May 2, 2004

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G. Hwang "ksgyh67" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Blues (Audio CD)

Dan Bejar never ceases to [expletive] me. The man is mad, and I love it. He is to music what Charlie Kaufman is to film, yet I love his original stamps of work and find them oddly close to my heart. The lyrics bite you on the lips after enticing you to kiss them. Bejar's voice, clear as a one-sided mirror. Destroyer at its catchiest and most eccentric best, the album is refreshingly clean in sound, yet more romantic and hollow-haunting than "This Night" and "Streethawk: A Seduction."

The more there's not to get, the more you're magnetically drawn into Bejar's black holes. Just let it flow or let it go. This music is like nothing else, beyond organic. Without being pretentious, Destroyer sends out signals, bleeps from aliens, that life out there is more nirvanic than what exists here.

So far, I've only listened to it 3 times, but I love it. This one's a keeper.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Masterpiece, March 9, 2004

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Jennifer (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Blues (Audio CD)

....and the masterpiece of Destroyer arrives. This album puts the bits and pieces that were spit out in Streethawks and This Night and arranges them into the language of beauty. The music is more involved and more intense. For fans of the raw music consisting of only acoustic and the magical vocals of Bejar ....be prepared, you're in for a sick ride. This music is developed to the fullest to arrive at the brink of perfection. It's filled with beautiful melancholy as well the adventures your life has never felt before. This is a must have. Enjoy!