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Elegant and perverse, Dan Bejar’s latest album slinks around in the shadows like he did on Kaputt, synthy, sleazy, and newly paranoid. He remains one of the most evocative songwriters of his generation.
Destroyer comes back strange, Bully channels ’90s fuzz, Jessie Ware evokes Whitney and Mariah, and doom duo Bell Witch turns in a moving eulogy to its late drummer. These plus Lindstrøm, Margo Price, and Makthaverskan in this week’s notable releases.
Dan Bejar had been searching for a way forward since Kaputt. He found it in his first love, New Order, and the result, Destroyer’s new album, ken, is Bejar’s best work since his masterpiece.
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Dan Bejar's 11th Destroyer LP arrives six months after the New Pornographers released their first album without him (April 2017's Whiteout Conditions).
Every couple of albums, Destroyer mastermind Dan Bejar transforms his sound completely, and ken is his latest about-face. After the sprawlin...
Destroyer has always been an incongruous name, the music hardly conjuring up a blast of hard rock. That was Dan Bejar's point, but there's something constantly overwhelming about his music.
Canadian artist Destroyer's synth infused, metallic-sounding 12th album 'Ken' is his first recorded without his band - kind of.
ken showcases the most commercially appealing elements of Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar’s oeuvre.
'Ken' by Destroyer: Our review finds Destroyer a force to be reckoned with on the sonic marvel that is 'ken.'