Artist: Destroyer
Album: Poison Season
Bitrate: 239kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Dead Oceans
Genre: Indie
Size: 94.60 megs
PlayTime: 0h 52min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2015-08-28
Store Date: 2015-08-28

Track List:
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01. Times Square, Poison Season I    2:34
02. Dream Lover                      3:48
03. Forces From Above                5:51
04. Hell                             3:17
05. The River                        3:35
06. Girl In A Sling                  3:04
07. Times Square                     4:11
08. Archer On The Beach              4:56
09. Midnight Meet The Rain           3:24
10. Solace's Bride                   3:43
11. Bangkok                          5:14
12. Sun In The Sky                   5:33
13. Times Square, Poison Season II   3:04

Release Notes:
--------
The first full-length Destroyer release since 2011's charting Kaputt -- with the
Antonio Luque-penned Five Spanish Songs EP, and his bands the New Pornographers
and Hello, Blue Roses' Brill Bruisers and WZO, respectively, dropping in the
interim -- 2015's Poison Season marks prolific songsmith Dan Bejar's tenth LP
with the project, and it's an intensely wistful, strings- and horns-washed epic
exploration of New York city life. At nearly an hour in length, it feels
immense, but more so from its unexpectedly cinematic stylings than from playing
time -- with rotating, scene-setting arrangements (rock, jazz, chamber music)
and beat-poetic narrative vignettes of a gritty reality seemingly from another
time, or another mind. The string ensemble arrangements on the sparse opener,
"Times Square, Poison Season I," proclaim yet another change in texture between
albums for Bejar. It's a dramatically haunting, impressionistic, talky piece
that could serve as an opening to an ominous musical, with lyrics like "The
writing on the wall wasn't writing at all/Just forces of nature in love with a
weather station," and later "You can follow a rose wherever it grows/Oh, you
could fall in love with Times Square." Traces of Kaputt's sophisti-pop linger in
the horns, piano, and delicate, extended guitar chords of "The River," on the
tender "Solace's Bride," and on the sultry, jazzy "Archer on the Beach," but
Poison Season stands alone thus far in Destroyer's catalog. Track highlights
include the rocking "Dream Lover" that blasts Lou Reed's New York ("All the
signs are saying 'This Way'"), the '70s crime show theme-invaded "Midnight Meet
the Rain," and the three versions of "Times Square" (chamber music, '70s
Bowie/Springsteen/Reed, chamber music), though the album really is a whole best
heard by its submitted design. Theatrical songs, like the expansive "Forces from
Above" -- with strings, synth noises, Latin percussion, a full drum kit passage,
soaring, atmospheric saxophone, and Bejar's fragile near-whisper -- and the
bouncy yet intensely forlorn "Hell" ("Baby, it's dumb. Look at what I've become
- scum. A relic. A satellite") create lush snapshots within a steamy street
mosaic. Co-produced by frequent Destroyer and New Pornographers collaborator
David Carswell, there's no new mastermind involved here, just the bewildering
Bejar, and nearly 20 years on, Destroyer is still as surprising and inspired as
ever. "I got paid and then I wrote a song. I got paid and then I rode a song
into the heavens."



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Artist: Destroyer
Album: Poison Season
Bitrate: 239kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Dead Oceans
Genre: Indie
Size: 94.60 megs
PlayTime: 0h 52min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2015-08-28
Store Date: 2015-08-28

Track List:
--------
01. Times Square, Poison Season I    2:34
02. Dream Lover                      3:48
03. Forces From Above                5:51
04. Hell                             3:17
05. The River                        3:35
06. Girl In A Sling                  3:04
07. Times Square                     4:11
08. Archer On The Beach              4:56
09. Midnight Meet The Rain           3:24
10. Solace's Bride                   3:43
11. Bangkok                          5:14
12. Sun In The Sky                   5:33
13. Times Square, Poison Season II   3:04

Release Notes:
--------
The first full-length Destroyer release since 2011's charting Kaputt -- with the
Antonio Luque-penned Five Spanish Songs EP, and his bands the New Pornographers
and Hello, Blue Roses' Brill Bruisers and WZO, respectively, dropping in the
interim -- 2015's Poison Season marks prolific songsmith Dan Bejar's tenth LP
with the project, and it's an intensely wistful, strings- and horns-washed epic
exploration of New York city life. At nearly an hour in length, it feels
immense, but more so from its unexpectedly cinematic stylings than from playing
time -- with rotating, scene-setting arrangements (rock, jazz, chamber music)
and beat-poetic narrative vignettes of a gritty reality seemingly from another
time, or another mind. The string ensemble arrangements on the sparse opener,
"Times Square, Poison Season I," proclaim yet another change in texture between
albums for Bejar. It's a dramatically haunting, impressionistic, talky piece
that could serve as an opening to an ominous musical, with lyrics like "The
writing on the wall wasn't writing at all/Just forces of nature in love with a
weather station," and later "You can follow a rose wherever it grows/Oh, you
could fall in love with Times Square." Traces of Kaputt's sophisti-pop linger in
the horns, piano, and delicate, extended guitar chords of "The River," on the
tender "Solace's Bride," and on the sultry, jazzy "Archer on the Beach," but
Poison Season stands alone thus far in Destroyer's catalog. Track highlights
include the rocking "Dream Lover" that blasts Lou Reed's New York ("All the
signs are saying 'This Way'"), the '70s crime show theme-invaded "Midnight Meet
the Rain," and the three versions of "Times Square" (chamber music, '70s
Bowie/Springsteen/Reed, chamber music), though the album really is a whole best
heard by its submitted design. Theatrical songs, like the expansive "Forces from
Above" -- with strings, synth noises, Latin percussion, a full drum kit passage,
soaring, atmospheric saxophone, and Bejar's fragile near-whisper -- and the
bouncy yet intensely forlorn "Hell" ("Baby, it's dumb. Look at what I've become
- scum. A relic. A satellite") create lush snapshots within a steamy street
mosaic. Co-produced by frequent Destroyer and New Pornographers collaborator
David Carswell, there's no new mastermind involved here, just the bewildering
Bejar, and nearly 20 years on, Destroyer is still as surprising and inspired as
ever. "I got paid and then I wrote a song. I got paid and then I rode a song
into the heavens."



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