DESTROYER
Harmonic presents
DESTROYER
+ Sleep Thieves
Tickets on sale Monday May 14th priced €18.50 (including booking fee) from www.whelanslive.com, www.tickets.ie, www.ticketmaster.ie & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. 0818 719 300 – Republic of Ireland customers 0844 277 4455 – Northern Ireland customers 00353 1 456 9569 – International customer
“Kaputt feels like an open love letter to a vanished pop era: it’s unique and warm and beautiful, as love letters are supposed to be.” The Guardian *****
“Kaputt is a genuine classic, unlike anything any other artist will release in 2011.” BBC Music
“Bejar creates an astonishing world in just nine songs; it’s his finest work to date, and excessive, but irresistibly so.” NME
No. 2 Album of the Year 2011 – Pitchfork
“Unique, captivating stuff. UNCUT
Destroyer is Dan Bejar from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Kaputt is his latest vision: an opulent, lyrical, game-changing masterpiece to rank with the choicest works of Sade, Scritti Politti, Simply Red and Steely Dan. For a more contemporary touchstone, feel free to consider it the sad-eyed psychic cousin of GAYNGS’ smooth opus Relayted. These elaborate songs were lovingly crafted by a large studio ensemble of dedicated players; they are given fresh life on the road by an eight-piece touring band which will visit European shores for the first time this year.
Kaputt was released by the good people of Merge in North America, entering the Billboard chart at number 62 and receiving exultant hosannas from such august publications as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin and The Washington Post.
Pitchfork awarded it their Best New Music accolade, noting that “Kaputt feels wise. Like a mirror that actually points back at something better. Something you can jam and let wash over you, but also something you can use. It feels funny, tragic, artful, and ultimately true.”
The record scored an A- grade when reviewed by The Onion’s A.V. Club, who declared: “Kaputt rolls luxuriously in its own plush soft-rock grandeur, powerfully alluring and deeply sad at the same time.”
Dead Oceans are honoured to be Destroyer’s new home for the UK and Europe.
Welcome to Avalon, people. This is a paradigm shift.
Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song “Suicide Demo For Kara Walker”… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar’s… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango In Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what’s to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar’s… The LinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys And Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…
These are some of the themes alluded to or avoided in the album Kaputt…