- Your Blues
Infobox Album | Name = Your Blues
Type =Album
Artist = Destroyer
Genre =Indie rock
Released = 2004
Label = Merge
Last album = "This Night " (2002)
This album = "Your Blues" (2004)
Next album = "Notorious Lightning & Other Works " (2005)
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dbfexq8aldde link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.6/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16988-your-blues]"Your Blues" is an album by Destroyer, released in 2004.
It was a notable departure from the full-band format of Destroyer's previous few albums, largely featuring
MIDI -simulated orchestration as its backing music.It has been variously described by critics as "some kind of masterpiece, the work of a truly original and iconoclastic talent", "a bold step in a new direction, risking over-the-top theatricality, but with its feet planted firmly on solid ground", "seem [ing] like a work in progress" and "an acquired taste". Metacritic [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/destroyer/yourblues Destroyer: Your Blues] Accessed
19 September 2006 ]While, with its
Metacritic "Metascore" of 79 out of 100, it could be considered to be critically well-received, frontman Dan Bejar conceded that it may be viewed by some as a "half-baked exercise", and the MIDI instrumentation as "completely hokey and completely sabotag [ing] the legitimacy of the songs".The Odyssey [http://www.odysseyzine.com/articles/interview_destroyer.htm An interview with the Dan Bejar of Destroyer] Accessed19 September 2006 ]Track listing
#"Notorious Lightning" – 5:57
#"It's Gonna Take an Airplane" – 3:41
#"An Actor's Revenge" – 2:57
#"The Music Lovers" – 4:22
#"From Oakland to Warsaw" – 3:11
#"Your Blues" – 2:57
#"New Ways of Living" – 4:23
#"Don't Become the Thing You Hated" – 2:13
#"Mad Foxes" – 4:45
#"The Fox and the Hound" – 3:23
#"What Road" – 3:57
#"Certain Things You Ought to Know" – 4:25Personnel
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Dan Bejar
*John Collins
*David Carswell References and notes
External links
* [http://www.mergerecords.com/m3u.php?media_id=21 Streaming version of the track "It's Gonna Take an Airplane"]
* [http://www.mergerecords.com/m3u.php?media_id=24 Streaming version of the track "The Music Lovers"]
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