Album Rating: 4.5
YOU COULD FALL IN LOVE IN TIMES SQUAAAARRE.
Poison Season is phenomenal.
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Album Rating: 3.5
the new album is pretty damn good
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Album Rating: 4.5
It's really good. After four listens I think it's a step up from this, though it kinda lacks that one or two 5/5 stunner that will put it above Poison Season, Kaputt, or Rubies for me.
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1 spin for me and I'm feeling pretty indifferent atm
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Album Rating: 4.5
It needed 5 for me
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I hate the album art. Dude puts literally zero effort into his album art, especially this time around.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Matches the music to a tee.
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I really dislike the lyrics, or at least their delivery a lot of the time, like even as the album starts on Crimson Tide:
"I was lying, the laziest river
A vulture predisposed to eating off floors
No wait, I take that back
I was more like an ocean"
His delivery irks me
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Album Rating: 4.5
That's one of the reasons love it to be honest.
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"You know it just doesn't happen to anyone..."
I am liking the new one a little bit more than this one.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I'm liking the new one a good amount more than this, more developed songwriting and the production is much better.
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"Clickity click-click, the music makes a musical sound" "just look at the world around you. Actually no don't look. But if you only know how I cry foul every hour of every day" "Come on university hill come on come on university hill come on come on university come on"
So often throughout this album Dan pisses me off with these annoying vocal moments, or just really asinine lyrics. I know he has an eccentric style but this grates on me a lot at times. I feel conflicted tho because after 3 plays I've definitely found a lot to like. I love the atmosphere on this thing, so many lovely but fleeting moments too, like the end of The Man in Black's Blues (even though the "knock-knock" is kind of irritating. Foolssong, Kinda Dark, It Just Doesn't Happen, Cue Synthesizer and Crimson Tide are all awesime. Raven too
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Album Rating: 3.5
Only heard Kaputt and Have We Met, and Kaputt is way better. The new one is just decent, nothing all that special about the atmosphere. If Kaputt is the best it gets I don't really see a need to check anything else of his tbh.
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University Hill is pretty annoying, ngl.
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Album Rating: 3.0
So often throughout this album Dan pisses me off with these annoying vocal moments, or just really asinine lyrics. I know he has an eccentric style but this grates on me a lot at times.
That's just Dan Bejar for you I guess, it bothers me to varying degrees on all his albums but I wouldn't say Have We Met is a particular offender in that department.
Sowing, Kaputt is pretty special but his discog, while a bit bloated, is definitely worth investigating more fully, there's actually quite a bit of variation even though everything has that fairly distinctive Dan Bejar touch. Whether you like that touch is gonna be up to you to decide but I would definitely at least try Rubies or Streethawk before totally writing off the rest of his discog as those are both very different from Kaputt and very excellent in their own right.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Agreed with Boney. Rubies is a classic and almost as good as Kaputt, in its own way.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Heey Spectrum Pulse knows what's up.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Sowing - I think Bejar is one of those you need to get on side with everything he does or you just won't 'get it' or really understand what's the point of listening to him 'beyond Kaputt' as you said
As Boney says his early stuff is very very different to 'Kaputt'. 'Streethawk' is a classic of sorts.
Side A of Rubies is as good as Kaputt and in some ways I can understand people saying it's 'better' than Kaputt...but Side B is not my favourite Bejar style at all and destroys any chance of me personally regarding it above a middle hitter in his discog
The last four albums are all 'nu-Destroyer' and I can understand someone saying 'Kaputt has it covered'...but Kaputt is my 2nd favourite album of all time, slightly lesser material in a similar style is still something I personally need more and more of, no problem with that, bring it on
Also 'University Hill' is great, there's not a bad tune on the new one. 'Cue Synthesiser' is a Kaputt track 100% and yet people have singled that out as the 'duffer' on this one. It's another winner in my book.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I was really lukewarm on Rubies when I first started listening to Bejar but I've really come around to it. Some tunes on the back half ("Watercolours...." and the closer) may not be highlights but they're still in the 4/5 range for me. "Dangerous Woman Up To a Point" is a certified classic tune, though, probably 3rd best on the whole album. But I def hear where you're coming from Doof.
Sowing, if you turn a blind eye to Poison Season I might have to riot. Kaputt is an all-timer for me too yet Poison Season might just have the highest highs of Destroyer's entire discography. I adore that record.
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Yeah University Hill is complete trash. I'm convinced that he's deliberately trying to be as annoying as possible at the end of the song.
Cue Synthesizer is definitely one of the best, didn't know people felt put off by it.
Overall I think the album is around a light 4. Very solid overall and probably my early favourite record of the year
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