2006 closed with Destroyer's Rubies—the sixth album by Dan Bejar's musical project Destroyer to receive a wide release—being named my #1 album. I stumbled into Bejar's work when I found a used copy of 2004's Your Blues and took a chance on it because it looked interesting. I then learned the album was a real outlier in the Destroyer catalog, having been recorded using MIDI orchestration. A follow-up EP, Notorious Lightning & Other Works, was released and featured several Your Blues songs in a rock setting. I was intrigued by both this conceptual continuity and Bejar's gripping, intellectual lyric writing, and continued to explore the catalog. Destroyer's Rubies (the full title includes the band's name) was the first Bejar album I bought upon release and it absolutely floored me. He has since released three more Destroyer albums, and after the gloss of his last two Rubies now seems downright rustic to me. This is one of the more rocking tunes on the record.   5

noyoucmon 16 Sep 2015

all Destroyer all the days.   1

samslaughter215 16 Apr 2014