Kaputt

Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Destroyer's two recent limited edition releases, Bay of Pigs and Archer on the Beach, were lauded by critics and sold out in the first month of release. Kaputt is Destroyer's ninth album. 'Dan Bejar's latest is a saxophone and soft jazz driven ode to an America that doesn't seem to exist anymore. Kaputt reminds me of a Bowie album that might have gotten shelved in the mid 80's right around the time of Bowie's big film breakthrough Labyrinth. 'Chinatown' kicks things off with a midtempo and spacey melody that meshes into the gooey and non descript 'Blue Eyes' which finds Bejar justifying his songwriting like a mantra with the lines, 'I write poetry for myself, I write poetry myself' ad infinitum. 'Savage Night at the Opera' follows and reminds me of Scritti Politti or something that Simple Minds might have tossed aside twenty years ago. Did I just type Scritti Politti? How often are they referenced anymore?' - Ventvox