Destroyer's Rubies

Seventh album from Dan Bejar encapsulates and elevates the best of his back catalog, serving as a potent reminder that the intelligence of his songs has never obfuscated their emotional weight.

Destroyer leader Daniel Bejar is probably the best lyricist in rock, but he's never seemed particularly interested in making that known. Destroyer has gathered a devout audience behind albums that survey a world of secondhand bookmarks and grimly lit bohemian dreams, but no version of the story can sidestep Bejar's…

Serpentine, elegant, self-reflexive and imagistic, Daniel Bejar's lyrics are the most deviously crafted in rock music these days.