3.
Destroyer
Kaputt
Key Track: Poor in Love”
This record, Dan Bejar’s belated pop masterpiece, isn’t cheesy. It’s tasteful as hell. The soft rock, the Vaseline-smeared lenses, the saxophone: we’d been conditioned by NME to see these things as the enemy. But unlike kids who try their best to sound like an unformed childhood memory, Kaputt is deadly specific, the improbable photo recall of a wine-drunk poetry professor. No one’s done cryptic decadence this well since Roxy Music. He earns the reference by equaling it, re-explaining how these things ever sounded good enough to become clichéd. And we’ve not even gotten to his devastating wit! Always hilarious, never a joke.
Good album but his vocals are super thin. He barely gets away with being a singer. Honey Bunny is an awesome tune followed by some other solid rocking, (for a change) numbers. My biggest gripe is that My Ma is a complete 100% rip off of Factory by Band of Horses. It is uncannily similar.
here’s some less narcissistic bands
Vulture Shit – http://vultureshit.bandcamp.com/
Robot Death Kites – http://robotdeathkites.bandcamp.com/
nursing home – http://nursinghome.bandcamp.com/