“The mandate was to keep it dark, keep it creepy. So did an obsession with the weird coldness of Leonard Cohen’s “For my part I just really fell in love with those vocals. But my favorite moment might be Bejar muttering "aw shit, here comes the sun" on "Dream Lover", the Bruce Springsteen-style rocker that, as “I went with the mandate of ‘John, just follow your heart!’” Bejar says. Or maybe it’s faith that they’ll at least stop getting worse.”If you enjoy The Quietus, please consider supporting what we do with a one-off or regular donation. Notorious Lightning and Other Works His genre includes chamber pop and indie pop. City of Daughters Bejar is part of the critically acclaimed Canadian group The New Pornographers.
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Who is Dan Bejar?
Lines like "The writing on the wall/ Wasn't writing at all" or "It sucks when there's nothing but gold in those hills" resist interpretation and invite savoring—the Destroyer-lyric-generator couplet here would probably be "The ass king's made of asses, the ice queen's made of snow," from "Archer on the Beach".
I’d heard once that David Sylvain would sing his vocal parts, and that would be the first thing then the song would get draped around it. I think it’s really natural as you get older for the world to seem more disorientating, more menacing, for things to seem so much worse than they were when you remember, but in spite of that I still have faith that things can get better.
As he prepares to release Have We Met, his twelfth album as Destroyer, Dan Bejar speaks to Patrick Clarke about his darkest, grooviest and perhaps best record to date. Destroyer. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going.
I don’t know what you’d call this writing. The talented Dan Bejar is a singer and a songwriter. Streethawk: A Seduction I haven’t written much in the last year. I don’t know much about trip hop because all I was listening to in 1999 was Mott The Hoople.”The idea of a trip-hop Y2K record was scrapped shortly afterwards, primarily because “neither John nor I really knew what that meant, and once you actually start working on a record it becomes more of a physical, tangible thing, and intellectual conceits get thrown out pretty fast.” However the project’s core vision remained. I mean I’m not in love with myself, but I’d never done vocals like that for a Destroyer record. “Usually Destroyer records are very much chronological, but I had been banking this stuff thinking I could one day use it for some non-musical purpose.
What kind of lines shall I spew?’”For all of his new record’s swampy, groovy gloom, Bejar is feeling good. Destroyer's Rubies
Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. The latter, obsessed with granular synthesis, experimented by feeding, for example, a warm-up take from a decade ago through an app to create abstracted and hazy sounds. Cue Fake Drums: Dan Bejar On Destroyer’s Have We Met Vancouver's indie bard discusses ditching his band in pursuit of "computer music" Patrick Lyons @p_lyons_ | January 23, 2020 - … Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Im Jahr 2000 veröffentlichte Destroyer das Album Bejar bezeichnet den Stil von Destroyer als "European Blues".