Name: Destroyer's Rubies
Brand: Merge
SKU: 30003334
Price: 27.09 USD
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Destroyer's Rubies

Rating

Album: Destroyer's Rubies
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Rubies	More Info...	0:09
2)	Your Blood	More Info...	0:04
3)	European Oils	More Info...	0:05
4)	Painter in Your Pocket	More Info...	0:04
5)	Looters' Follies	More Info...	0:07
6)	3000 Flowers	More Info...	0:03
7)	A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point	More Info...	0:06
8)	Priest's Knees	More Info...	0:03
9)	Watercolours Into the Ocean	More Info...	0:04
10)	Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever	More Info...	0:06

Album: Destroyer's Rubies
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Rubies	More Info...	0:09
2)	Your Blood	More Info...	0:04
3)	European Oils	More Info...	0:05
4)	Painter in Your Pocket	More Info...	0:04
5)	Looters' Follies	More Info...	0:07
6)	3000 Flowers	More Info...	0:03
7)	A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point	More Info...	0:06
8)	Priest's Knees	More Info...	0:03
9)	Watercolours Into the Ocean	More Info...	0:04
10)	Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever	More Info...	0:06

Performer Notes

There are enough reasons for some listeners to dismiss Destroyer (aka Dan Bejar) right off--his self-consciously literate lyrics, his precious sense of theatricality, and his shameless David Bowie obsession, to name a few. Yet Bejar makes all of these potential liabilities work in his favor by building smart, absorbing, and remarkably well-crafted pop songs that sink in and then stick.
DESTROYER'S RUBIES, the artist's fifth solo album, is his most accomplished to date, and though it still owes a deep debt to HUNKY DORY-era Bowie, it truly shines with a sense of originality and integrity. Psychedelic, dreamy, sensitive, bitter, and slightly mad, Bejar is pushing the horizons of his own vision, yet his tunesmithery is sharper and more focused than ever.

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (p.64) - "[H]is insider snipes at indie-rock pretense show Wildean wit. Yet his rhymes are equally fun for outsiders." -- Grade: B+