Destroyer - Kaputt [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Destroyer - Kaputt (2011) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Released: 2011
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Indie Rock
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 2,800 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 24
Sample Rate: 96,000 Hz

01. Chinatown
02. Blue Eyes
03. Savage Night At The Opera
04. Suicide Demo For Kara Walker
05. Poor In Love
06. Kaputt
07. Downtown
08. Song For America
09. The Laziest River
10. Bay Of Pigs

Shape-shifting Canadian pop craftsman Daniel Bejar's ninth studio album under the Destroyer moniker added a whole lot of Bryan Ferry to a pot already boiling over with copious amounts of Bowie, Dylan, and T. Rex. Bejar's predilection for pairing Oscar Wilde-inspired, semi-apocalyptic witticisms with glam-kissed, minor-seventh retro pop remained intact, but where previous outings like This Night and Streethawk: A Seduction mined the '70s for inspiration, 2011's Kaputt utilizes '80s sophisti-pop, New Romantic, Northern soul, and straight-up adult contemporary to deliver a flawed but fascinating record. Like Goldfrapp's divisive, 2010 retro dance-pop tribute Head First, Kaputt is fully committed to its cause, wrapping everything up in a pristine, immaculately produced biosphere thatΓÇÖs filled to the brim with twinkling synths, soft rock drums, and enough wailing trumpets and saxophones to out-mellow Kenny G, David Sanborn, and Dave Koz combined. Ever the well-read, secretly pleased malcontent (ΓÇ£I write poetry for myselfΓÇ¥), Bejar sounds more comfortable in this new disguise than he does on his more troubadour-oriented projects, as if producing the soundtrack for a discotheque with a capacity of one was his intention all along. His epic 11-minute, 2009 single ΓÇ£Bay of Pigs,ΓÇ¥ which he described at the time as ΓÇ£ambient disco,ΓÇ¥ could hardly serve as a more fitting conclusion to Kaputt, as it more than lives up to its creatorΓÇÖs boast. ΓÇ£Suicide Demo for Kara Walker,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£Song for America,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£Chinatown,ΓÇ¥ all of which skillfully tread water between the urbane intellectualism of Donald Fagan or Momus and the quiet, technical nihilism of Talk Talk, differ very little from the remaining six cuts, which may cause fans of his more adventurous work some fits, but thereΓÇÖs no denying their icy, coke-fueled 2:00 A.M. elegance.