Destroyer: Dan's Boogie review – darkness haunts a gorgeous ruined palace of a record
This time, the protagonists of Bejar's 14th album are feeling similarly side-swiped. Sudden change strands laggards at sea. Ghosts and inclement weather creep in without warning. Darker forces leave Bejar 'sick of women missing / In the dark light that hangs / O'er the low-backed side streets'. On the strikingly sweet highlight Cataract Time, Bejar tenderly observes the folly of assuming that 'we think we know / Enough to go on'.
Gentle closer Travel Light waves off the 'dopers and pushers' who think they can outrun fate. But Bejar is committed to the beauty in chaos: how 'the sun mostly rises / A great golden spike through the heart of the world', as he sings on the oddly calming The Ignoramus of Love. That outlook beams through this gorgeous ruined palace of a record, one that swaggers from rococo to shambling, haunted to boisterous. It is just as rapturous as his 2011 breakout, Kaputt – unerring quality being another Destroyer trademark.
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