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Dan Bejar Lovefest

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Sorry dear blog for neglecting you. I’ve been busy as of late with my mistress, the latest recording from frizzy-haired Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Bejar, who goes by the stage name Destroyer and moonlights on New Pornographers’ recordings in his spare time. I love me some Dan Bejar. I love his silly impassioned voice; his furry beard; his ridiculous, counterintuitive band name; his dramatic, over-the-top songwriting; his unique way with melody (and countermelody); his oddball, poetic lyrics that seem plainly personal and relative to Bejar, but yet otherworldly to most others; and the effortless nature with which he composes his tiny pop ‘n’ roll symphonies. A good Destroyer song — and there are plenty to choose from — do not sound like anyone else’s creation. They are simply songs of Destroyer. And Destroyer’s Rubies, which came out last month on Merge Records, is his strongest effort to date. Buy it now and it will add wonderful, fresh character to the stale set of tunes crammed into your plastic portable music device.

Destroyer - "European Oils"

Destroyer - "Priest’s Knees" 

Posted on 03.24.2006 by Registered CommenterThe Noiseboy in | Comments1 Comment | References1 Reference

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It is perhaps ill advised to write and quite unrelated to anything else going on in my life but I will nonetheless admit that after several years of repression I have finally tonight realized that I would in fact like to slowly suck Dan Bejar's fingers one by one while he gazes at me, eyes closed, and that perhaps later he could bind my hands behind my back and treat me like a kitten.
03.31.2008 | Unregistered Commenterlesley

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