Thief
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Album • Sep 18 / 2000 • 13 songs, 43m 56s • 91%
Chamber Pop
Indie Rock
Popular
7.9
/ 10
If you're anything like me, you've probably stayed up late many a night wondering what the bastard offspring ...
That a record with such a plug-ugly cover would house such beautifully melodic pop is just one of the many contradictions that propel Destroyer's Thief; anthemic yet understated, honeyed yet acerbic, it's first and foremost a collection of piano ballads that possesses absolutely none of the sentimentality and romanticism that the style almost uniformly engenders.