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Poison Season

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Track Listings

1 Times Square, Poison Season
2 Dream Lover
3 Forces from Above
4 Hell
5 The River
6 Girl in a Sling
7 Times Square
8 Archer On the Beach
9 Midnight Meet the Rain
10 Solace's Bride
11 Bangkok
12 Sun in the Sky
13 Times Square, Poison Season II

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Destroyer's Poison Season opens swathed in Hunky Dory strings. Dan Bejar's a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked characters-Jesus, Jacob, Judy, Jack-simultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the record-first as swaying, saxophone-stoked "street-rock" and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie.

Broadway Danny Bejar dramatically switches scenes with "Dream Lover," all Style Council strut and brassy, radio-ready bombast (echoes of The Boo Radleys' evergreen earworm "Wake Up Boo!"). This being Destroyer, its paramours-on-the-run exuberance is judiciously spiked by his deadpan delivery: "Oh shit, here comes the sun…"

Like the other DB, 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 they'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.

Playfully rueful, "Sun in the Sky" foregrounds cryptic lyrical dexterity over pop-classicist strum before gradually left-fielding into rhythmically supple, delirious avant-squall. It's as if Talk Talk took over a Lloyd Cole show. Originally released on a collaborative EP with electronic maestros Tim Hecker and Loscil (the latter's drones are retained here), a retooled "Archer on the Beach" suggests Sade swimming in The Blue Nile, smooth-jazz marimba melancholy dilated by ecstatic ambience. Flecked in heady dissonance, elusively alluring, Dan hymns its eponymous "impossible raver on your death bed" while implicitly beckoning the listener: "Careful now, watch your step, in you go."

That's Poison Season in essence: familiar yet mysterious, opaquely accessible. Arch, for sure, but ultimately elevatory.

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  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.4 x 1 x 14.1 cm; 60 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Dead Oceans
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Dead Oceans
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Y08Z5SU
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2015
    I downloaded this the day it was released. I loved the Daniel Bejar's seemingly chaotic rhythm's and random lyrics that made Kaputt, released in 2011, such a great album.
    Poison Season has received rave reviews with critics claiming that Bejar has stripped down the music of Kaputt and built Destroyer's sound backup to produce his best work yet.
    I'm inclined to agree. The album sounds more polished with the music and lyrics more immediately accessible and satisfying than Kaputt. This is a moot point because it was the sheer anarchic, random chaos of Kaputt that drew me in in the first place. The album was a grower, you had to work at it for it to give up it's rewards.
    I have listened to Poison Season several times this week as it was streamed pre-release. I still get the same excitement as I did when I heard Kaputt. The music is superb quality and Bejar's lyrics are beguiling. For me, it feels like a continuation and development of a unique sound and I feel all the richer for it.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2017
    Not as good as I expected
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2015
    Imagine a cross between the best of Lambchop and the best of Mercury Rev soundtracking your perfect exotic holiday. Then add a bit. Save it for next summer. Trust me: it'll hit the spot perfectly.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2017
    Great purchase and great service, delivered on time just as promised.
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2015
    It arrived fine and it is by far the best record of 2015 so far.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2015
    I haven't written a review on here in years, but this remarkable album deserves more than a couple of people praising it. His last album, Kaput, was a wonderful take on the smooth Roxy Music sound of Avalon. This one puts early Bowie and 80's literate UK pop into a blender and comes up with another special combination. You could call him an arch pop classicist, but that makes him sound dry, studied and academic. There's too much heart, soul and melody herein for that kind of labeling. At the end of the day this is another collection of beautifully written songs, expertly crafted and effortlessly engaging.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2016
    Wonderfully, wistful instrumentation on this collection of songs but Mr. Bajers affected 'singing' style prevents me from enjoying this album. It would appear I'm unique amongst my fellow reviewers here so try for yourself and let me know how you get on....
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  • Luis Alfredo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buena calidad y llegó bien. ✨
    Reviewed in Mexico on 14 July 2020
    La calidad de sonido del vinilo es muy buena, los dos vinilos que vienen llegaron en buena condición. Un buen aporte a mi colección, uno de mis álbumes favoritos del 2015. ✨
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Buena calidad y llegó bien. ✨

    Reviewed in Mexico on 14 July 2020
    La calidad de sonido del vinilo es muy buena, los dos vinilos que vienen llegaron en buena condición. Un buen aporte a mi colección, uno de mis álbumes favoritos del 2015. ✨
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Destroyer is a very good artist. I have purchased much of his earlier ...
    Reviewed in Canada on 24 November 2015
    Destroyer is a very good artist. I have purchased much of his earlier music and loved it all. His newest CD, 'Poison Season' continues his progression of excellence, some very great strange sounds, which are as always, so fine and so different from what he did before. He continues to grow and gets better with every piece of music he creates....
  • P. Martin
    5.0 out of 5 stars like nothing else out there
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 November 2015
    Tremendous album, like nothing else out there. If you cross Frank Sinatra, late 50's with the Stones of the early 70's you'd have Destroyer, and just a hint of Miles Davis, early 80s. But Dan Bejar brings his own unique thing lyrically which bears repeated listening like few albums to have come out recently. It's up there with Kaput!
  • Ricardo 3 V
    5.0 out of 5 stars merveille
    Reviewed in France on 12 July 2016
    fabuleux album, bien au delà de ce que Dan Bejard proposait avec les pourtant très honorables new pornographers... Ici audace et élégance se conjuguent ; on pense, de loin car les compositions sont toutes singulières, au meilleur prefab sprout ou encore aux regrettés aztec camera. Mais aucun passéisme dans la musique de destroyer, aucune référence mal digérée non plus ; le groupe distille juste une manière de mélancolie chic.
  • Winterschläfer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Aus der Zeit gefallen..
    Reviewed in Germany on 25 May 2016
    Wer macht heute noch solche Alben? Diese Songs scheren sich nicht um die heutige Musiklandschaft. Ist dieser Softpop nicht zu langweilig, hat er nicht genügend Punch, um irgendjemand aus der Zielgruppe XY zu erreichen? Vollkommen egal. Da werden einfach Songs geschrieben und aufgenommen, weil es sich so richtig anfühlt. Und das tut gut. Nach "Kaputt" hätte man sich auch bei irgendwelchen Hipstern anbiedern können, aber Bejar geht seinen Weg und lässt sich treiben.
    Es ist ein sehr gutes Album, aber wahrscheinlich nicht sein bestes, aber das ist bei seiner Diskografie verständlich ("Destroyers Rubies", "This night", "Your blues"!).
    Was mir am meisten auffällt, ist, dass der Gesang sehr oft so ruhig und unangestrengt ist. Manchmal erinnert es an Flüstern. Das hat er von Kaputt herübergerettet. Ich höre diese Stimme unheimlich gerne. Auch sind die Songs etwas verträumter.
    Mein Lieblingsmoment auf der Platte ist "Sun in the sky", weil ich hier (durch Zufall) verfolgen kann, wie Eindrücke zu Songs werden:
    Destroyer haben auf der Kaputttour auch ein Konzert in Basel gegeben. Es gibt dort das schöne "Im Fluss" - Event. Konzerte werden auf einer Plattform/Floss mitten im Rhein gegeben. Vom Ufer aus kann man dann kostenlos zuschauen. Die Basler haben zu dem noch den schönen Brauch sich an heißen Sommertagen vom Rhein flussabwärts treiben zu lassen. Um die Kleider mitzunehmen haben sie farbige wasserdichte Plastikbeutel dabei, welche sie auch als Schwimmkissen nutzen. Nach dem letzten Song haben sich dann 2 Musiker aus der Band vom Floss aus treiben lassen. Bejar nicht, er hatte wahrscheinlich ein bisschen zu viel Wein intus:-).
    Und so kommen dann Zeilen wie:

    You drink a cup of wine
    To settle your nerves
    You float down the Rhine
    Beside your plastic bag
    You float down the Rhine
    Clutching a plastic bag

    zustande. Klingt, wenn man es nicht weiß, vielleicht ein bisschen kryptisch.