Name: Thief
Brand: Destroyer

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Bonus disc: No

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MRG372CD

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-04-01

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0673855037226

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

mrg372lp

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Limited to 3000 Copies on Orange vinyl with Download.

2018-06-01

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673855037219

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

Artist

Destroyer

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Alternative / Modern

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Merge Records

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

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan, it started as a platform to release music from their band Superchunk and their friends' creations. Over the years, Merge Records has grown to include talented artists from all over the world, with some of their records even reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.
With its headquarters nestled in Durham, North Carolina, Merge Records has become a renowned name in the music industry. The label was established by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan back in 1989 with a vision to share their own musical endeavors as well as support fellow musicians within their circle.
What began as a humble endeavor quickly flourished into something much greater. Today, Merge Records boasts an impressive roster of artists spanning various genres and backgrounds. From indie rock to experimental pop, *Superchunk* paved the way for other talented musicians to join forces under this esteemed label's umbrella.

Thief is Destroyer’s third full length and first with a full band, originally released in 2000, and is the album on which Destroyer truly hit its stride. Not only did Dan Bejar offer up what was easily his best work to date; with this album, it became clear he was a songwriter who wasn’t just producing incremental batches of songs but an entire connected oeuvre. He was clearly a student of rock history but emerged as his own biggest influence. (Check the self-referential Destroyer’s the Temple that kicks things off, as well as the previous-album callback City of Daughters.)

The middle of three albums on which John Collins (bass) and Scott Morgan (drums) accompanied, the songs on Thief are some of the most immediately approachable in the Destroyer catalogue. The Way of Perpetual Roads is so loose it swings; City of Daughters is as sweet a piece of power pop as any of Bejar’s contributions to the New Pornographers; and Canadian Lover / Falcon’s Escape remains one of Destroyer’s most enduring anthems, a rare fist-pumping moment. Lyrically, Bejar was at his sharpest, both in terms of dishing out barbs (largely targeted at the music industry) and commanding the full range of his free-flowing poetry—poignancy to punchlines with just the right amount of inscrutability to keep you listening again and again.

LP - Limited to 3000 Copies on Orange vinyl with Download.

Thief

Music GB

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