Kaputt (Merge)

Release Date: Jan. 25
The Skinny: Daniel Bejar, mastermind behind Destroyer and occasional writer of songs for the New Pornographers, is one of the most lyrically gifted and stylistically restless musicians at work in any realm. He's nominally an indie-rock guy, but there's something about his songs -- no matter how fuzzy or shaggy or unkempt they get -- that resists fitting into any genre not gerrymandered to account for his piercing, probing exceptions to rules. Plus, he recently delved into disco and glitchy ambient electronic music on a pair of very surprising singles. So what does that portend for Kaputt? There's sax in the first song. And a gentle, almost New Age atmosphere to much of the rest. Apparently, Bejar meant it when he cited "’80s Miles Davis" and "fretless bass" as influences this time out.
Fast Fact: A different Daniel Bejar has a very cool and very strange website on which he posts letters he gets addressing the Destroyer version of Daniel Bejar, as well as restaged photographs in which he mimics poses of Destroyer pictures he finds online.

Destroyer, "Chinatown"

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