Name: Kaputt
Brand: Destroyer

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

doc046cd

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-06-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Destroyer

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver formed in 1995 and fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar.

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now released in the uk on dead oceans with 20 minutes of additional music not on the us edition. what a surprise this album is from vancouver's dan bejar a man who has paid his dues since establishing the destroyers brand in 1995. the sound he throws into the ring to underpin this new album 'kaputt' lifts liberally from the musical embarrassment of early eighties lounge lizards such as kenny g and david sanborn, throws in a spice of sade's 'diamond life' and wraps it under the blanket of west coast based smooth jazz and studio 54 disco sounds. yes it sounds a bit insane and on occasions you suspect that bejar the architect of all this eccentricity could have found the words 'sectioned under the mental health' whispered by the studio producer. but it works and is often very funny to boot. this is much more than just a piece of 80s retro and like gayngs recently evoking the ghost of 10cc here the key reference point is brian ferry all done up in a suave suit singing 'avalon' with saxophones blazing, but with cigarette ash smeared into the shiny lapels and with a bitter 'morning after the night before' taste left in your mouth.

Kaputt

Music GB