Poison Season

Poison Season
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On August 28, Destroyer returns with a new full-length, Poison Season. In addition, a two-song 12-inch that includes a remix of album track â€œForces From Aboveâ€ and the orchestral version of â€œTimes Square, Poison Seasonâ€ will be released as a companion to the record. Poison Season opens with Vancouver native Dan Bejar swathed in Hunky Dory strings. Heâ€™s a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked charactersâ€”Jesus, Jacob, Judy, Jackâ€”simultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the recordâ€”first as swaying, saxophone-stoked â€œstreet-rockâ€ and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie. â€œThe first and last songs are actually one song tracked live with quintet,â€ explains their author. â€œI even sang with the band. That song always swung between super austere and super mid-â€™70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock. In the end, I decided I wanted both. Couldnâ€™t really figure out a way to sequence the orchestral version within the record, so I decided to carve it up as a book-ending motif, with the rock version squarely in the middle.â€ Mr. Bejar has long displayed a chameleonic instinct for change while maintaining a unified aesthetic (rather than just pinballing between reference points). No two records sound the same, but theyâ€™re always uniquely Destroyer. His latest incarnation often appears to take sonic cues from a distinctly British (usually Scottish, to be precise) strain of sophisti-pop: you might hear traces of Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Orange Juice, or The Blow Monkeys. These songs merge a casual literary brilliance with intense melodic verve, nimble arrangements, and a certain blue-eyed soul sadness.
Country USA
Brand Imports
Manufacturer Merge Records
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2015-08-28
UnitCount 1
UPCs 673855056920
EANs 0673855056920

Country	USA
Brand	Imports
Manufacturer	Merge Records
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2015-08-28
UnitCount	1
UPCs	673855056920
EANs	0673855056920

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