Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams

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3...according to our Ant on Fri 14 Mar, 2008.

The last one from me this week is by Destroyer who you'd be forgiven for thinking were a metal band. That's not the case though. They're a band featuring Daniel Bejar who have their 'Trouble in Dreams' album out this week. Phil's dad occasionally visits the office and more often than not he walks into the sound of some weird psychedelic drone and responds with words along the lines of "This isn't music, it sounds like hamsters faces being drilled off". However when the promo of this album was playing he thought it was "real" music and said it reminded him of the Bee Gees. I don't hear it myself but it does have a slight dad friendliness to it. I find the vocal a bit too theatrical personally. There's touches of piano and dramatic strings in this sophisticated, very mature sounding singer / songwriter gubbins. Out on Rough Trade.

Daniel Bejar, also famous for his musical collaborations with indie-rock band The New Pornographers, is a seminal artist in his own right as frontman of Destroyer. Over the course of his career, Destroyer has established himself & his band as an unpredictable success story having released 8 critically acclaimed albums to date.He is adored by the alternative music community.

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