On Poison Season, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar sees what sticks.
Destroyer
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Elegantly Destroyed
Destroyer’s Backrooms of the World
Destroyer travels through the backrooms of the world.
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Owner of Confusion
The Destroyer, Dan Bejar
Who are the great lyricists of the day? Not the ones whose themes rattle within your bones for some personal or circumstantial reasons, but those with a passion for and a grasp of language. The poetic and the literary. Masters of construction. Twisters of the phrase and owners of confusion. Those whose songs could be […]
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Use Once and Destroy
Destroyer Gets Precious with Rubies
THE CAREER OF Vancouver, BC’s Destroyer—the moniker for the New Pornographers’ Daniel Bejar—is best characterized by shape-shifting reinvention. With every album, Bejar manages to repackage the Destroyer sound, while retaining his inimitable earmarks as a songwriter: irrepressible melody, deeply associative wordplay, and a flair for drama and excess. The first sign of greatness was Streethawk: […]