Destroyer released one of the surprise records last year in Kaputt, a synthy, sax-ridden, smooth-rocker of an album made for those special nights in with your favourite sofa and a big fat doobie. Not even Toto or Steely Dan in their heyday could have made rock this soft and downright sophisticated. If you haven’t got a girl or a boy to share the couch with on these cold nights, share it with this album and a big fat doobie, oh crap, did I say that already? Yeah, that what happens, this album is just so smooth everything just……….
Oh yeah, here’s some stuff somebody else wrote and the Kaputt video too:
Over the course of his career as Destroyer, Dan Bejar has established himself and his band as one of the most unpredictable success stories in modern, popular music. As a songwriter, Bejar is recognized as having few peers. As a musician, he is like the court jester, waiting in the wings, poking fun at those who take themselves too seriously and skewering those who would celebrate commerce as art.
Kaputt is his latest vision: an opulent, lyrical, game-changing masterpiece to rank with the choicest works of Sade, Scritti Politti, Simply Red and Steely Dan. For a more contemporary touchstone, feel free to consider it the sad-eyed psychic cousin of GAYNGS’ smooth opus Relayted. These elaborate songs were lovingly crafted by a large studio ensemble of dedicated players.
