Review: Destroyer, Kaputt. 10.0 | Eye Weekly. The album is an exercise in easy listening, … Album of the Week, Album Reviews Destroyer : Kaputt by Tyler Parks. It's completely straight-faced and serious. Kaputt is the go-to last-dance soundtrack to the fall of an empire Read Review. Featured peformers: Dan Bejar (performer, writer, vocals), Pete Bourne (performer), Nicolas Bragg (performer), David Carswell (performer), JP Carter (performer), John Collins (performer), Joseph Shabason (performer), Sibel Thrasher (performer), Ted Bois (producer). Album Rating: 4.0Smooth like white wine on a neon-drenched wave runner splashing through the shores of Vice City, Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. Music Reviews: Kaputt by Destroyer released in 2011 via Merge. Genres: Sophisti-Pop, Art Pop. But it’s also a masterpiece. Over the next 16 years, Bejar has variously offered up fey, glammy art-rock in the image of David Bowie's Hunky Dory; epic balladry set to an electronic simulation of an orchestra; "ambient disco"; and avant garde electronica, with Bejar's florid lyrics the only linking factor. Metacritic Music Reviews, Kaputt by Destroyer, Canadian pop craftsman Daniel Bejar's ninth album combines the glam of David Bowie and the rock and roll of … Posted on 01 March 2011 by Joe. Destroyer’s new album Kaputt may be one of the most indefensible albums of all time. Reviews Destroyer Kaputt Siobhan Kane , March 31st, 2011 13:42. Destroyer - Kaputt review: Destroyer continue to map out unexpected territories with referential landmarks, with magnificent results. Illustration by Justin Taing KAPUTT, Destroyer’s (Dan Bejar) seminal record of romantic, loungey/jazz/art-rock jams, turns ten years old today. Destroyer's full length KAPUTT feels completely devoid of this ironic distance that has plagued a lot of recent music. Featured peformers: Dan Bejar (performer, writer, vocals), Pete Bourne (performer), Nicolas Bragg (performer), David Carswell (performer), JP Carter (performer), John Collins (performer), Joseph Shabason (performer), Sibel Thrasher (performer), Ted Bois (producer). Genre: Sophisti-Pop. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. Genres: Sophisti-Pop, Art Pop. But Kapputt's greatest moments come when it sounds like an album about being a certain kind of music fan, long rendered extinct by the internet and 360-degree connectivity: isolated from the music you love by youth or geography or both, existing on whatever snippets of information you can find in the music press. MRG369; CD). The first thing that struck me about Kaputt, the ninth album by Destroyer (aka Dan Bejar), was its sound. Kaputt, an Album by Destroyer. On the eve of its tenth anniversary, Kaputt remains the kind of album that needs to be appreciated — on whatever level that means to you — not understood. Destroyer's full length KAPUTT feels completely devoid of this ironic distance that has plagued a lot of recent music. This quickly snowballed into a new obsession for me, and I, luckily, was Its studio-bound, high-concept slickness seems to jar with current musical trends, which may explain the distinct hint of critical bemusement with which Kaputt's appearance was greeted: even a reviewer who loved it called it "one of the most indefensible albums of all time". Destroyer – Kaputt… out 1/25 on Merge This eight-minute epic begins with a Kraftwerkian sphere of gauzy synth ambiance. Blue Eyes seems to be an alternately affectionate and wry portrayal of a solitary teenage music obsessive, "a permanent figure of jacked-up sorrow", big on New Order and writing poetry, convinced no one understands him: "They all had it in for me." Genres: Sophisti-Pop, Art Pop. Released 25 January 2011 on Merge (catalog no. Share ; Tweet; I went to college with a girl who loved Dan Bejar in the same way that a great many more people love Madonna or Michael Jackson.