Your Blues
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BAND OF THE WEEK: Album Thoughts #5
Out of all the Destroyer records I've been through so far, this is the one that had the least impact on me. I've listened to it twice and it's hard to remember much about it and a lot of it left me underwhelmed. Your Blues is a drastic change in style for Destroyer. They get rid of a lot of the rock element and in place focus heavy on the pop aspect of their music. Mostly it's This Night with a focus on synthesizers. Lyrically, it feels less inspired ... read more
The prelude to Destroyer's Rubies. This is where Dan truly starts to settle into his own and creates a streak of amazing records that continues to this day. Your Blues plays with the same indie-rock and sophisti-pop canvass that Rubies eventually expands on yet to define Blues as merely the precursor to Dan's second classic would be such an awful, awful shame. This record is a bonafide gem from beginning to end and its stylistic decisions may in some ways be more preferable than what he would ... read more
This is Destroyer's best album. It is also one of the greatest albums of all time.
All Destroyer's albums are postmodern tragicomedies, but it is here that he pulls off that genre/mood most perfectly. Bejar inhabits the character of some sort of aspiring socialite/aesthete, speaking to us in the language of rock opera, painting an almost absurdly melodramatic image of the modern artist's apparently enlightened, droll, and, most importantly, tormented existence. It becomes clear what we are ... read more
This was good. I think it is more consistent than this night but still is not quite to the highs of Destroyers later music.
It has a nice atmosphere with the horns. The previous glam rock elements are all gone, and traded for a slower chamber pop style. This is an interesting direction to go, and I am glad of the switch up.
The songwriting is still really hard for me to understand. I like that Bejars lyrics are so strange though.
in many ways this just feels like 'another destroyer album', but that is not a bad thing at ALL
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Track List
| 1 | Notorious Lightning 5:57 | 91 |
| 2 | It's Gonna Take an Airplane 3:41 | 89 |
| 3 | An Actor's Revenge 2:57 | 83 |
| 4 | The Music Lovers 4:22 | 82 |
| 5 | From Oakland to Warsaw 3:11 | 76 |
| 6 | Your Blues 2:57 | 84 |
| 7 | New Ways of Living 4:23 | 83 |
| 8 | Don't Become the Thing You Hated 2:13 | 76 |
| 9 | Mad Foxes 4:45 | 72 |
| 10 | The Fox and the Hound 3:23 | 67 |
| 11 | What Road 3:57 | 78 |
| 12 | Certain Things You Ought to Know 4:25 | 82 |
Total Length: 46 minutes
