Stream: Destroyer, “Bay of Pigs”
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Michael Schmelling (F36)
FADER #36 cover Dan Bejar just broke music. Instead of putting four or five songs on a record and releasing it as an EP, Bejar decided he’d drop a FOURTEEN MINUTE prog synth epic, “Bay of Pigs,” with actual chapters on the a-side, then take it easy on the b-side with a song that clocks in at “only” seven minutes. Bejar has made some of our favorite records of the last couple years (what up Destroyer’s Rubies! How’s it going, both Swan Lake albums!), so we know his overindulgence is also always ridiculously listenable. The EP comes out August 18th from the open minds at Merge.
Stream: Destroyer, “Bay of Pigs” (via Stereogum)
Freeload: Destroyer, “Madame Butterflies”
- story THE FADER
One of our favorite things to do in the office when everyone is nose-down on the keyboard all what is going to happen next in my bloglines???? is break out an impromptu Dan Bejar impression and sing about lunch or beer or whatever because it makes us feel like a court troubador. And yet, we don’t feel like Dan is a court troubador at all, just a magnificent son of a b who can write the shit out of a pop epic. To wit, this newly free mp3 that Merge released in honor of Record Store Day.
Download: Destroyer, “Madame Butterflies” (req registration BUT IT’S WORTH IT)
Audio: Hello, Blue Roses, “Shadow Falls”
- story THE FADER
We are all for dudes we put on the cover finding happiness with their significant others and making upbeat and/or endearing jams with the assistance of said significant other (see Bill Callahan and Joanna Newsom), so it’s cool that FADER cover star of F36 Dan Bejar of Destroyer and Swan Lake and a bunch of other stuff decided to do a whole album with his girlfriend Sydney Vermont as Hello, Blue Roses. You can check “Shadow Falls” below and listen as it climbs a huge sappy ladder of ambient synths and leaves you all warm and thinking about Titanic because like, that movie was about LOVE. Actually though, we love when these Canadians do these random projects because they generally turn out to be totally worth listening to and we’re sure this one will be no different.
