Trouble in Dreams

Trouble in Dreams is a rad party to which actual people aren't invited, because it admittedly exists to lure muses (at least seven are named) out of Dan Bejar's imagination and into his bedroom: "A chorus is a thing that bears repeating/ And the problem, as I see it, is girls stay away from that shit." He yelps that bit here on a, um, repeat performance of a track from the Swan Lake album, which you will remember, because the next line is, "Saw you in Swan Lake." The vibe of this moment hews close to the one conveyed by Destroyer labelmate, hero, and fellow English-accent-faker Robert Pollard on Guided By Voices' "The Official Ironmen Rally Song" back in 1996: "Crawling people on your knees/ Don't take this so seriously/ You just have to hum it all day long." (Except, well, Bejar even hums seriously.)

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