Kaputt
Dan Bejar returns with a brilliant and accessible album that draws from the lush sounds of the early 1980s but never forgets the importance of songwriting.
Something strange happened to rock music in 2010: Soft-focus sax solos stopped being funny. Well, they’re still sort of funny, but indie groups like Gayngs and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have reclaimed the smooth-as-Aja sonic textures that characterized the lite-FM songs they first encountered in the back seats of…
Always a cagey artist, Dan Bejar sheds his skin seemingly with every song. He’s a chameleon who changes color to suit a…
Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar sings "I write poetry for myself" during Kaputt's "Blue Eyes," and it reads like a modus operandi for his adventurous will over the past decade.
Perhaps one day Bejar will cut an album for the unconverted, but Kaputt is not that album.
In recent years, I've forgiven some albums released in the '80s. Stuff like Bob Dylan's Infidels or Springsteen's Born in the U
Can a homage to a willfully unfashionable genre work? <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong> takes a trip to the unexplored side of the 80s
Destroyer - Kaputt review: Destroyer continue to map out unexpected territories with referential landmarks, with magnificent results.