Word: bejar
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...Rubies,” Bejar reunites the principal members of the band with whom he recorded 2002’s “This Night.” The reunion seems like a calculated response to the lukewarm reception fans gave to the stripped-down, piano-driven production on Destroyer’s most recent album, 2004’s “Your Blues...
Destroyer may be considered a Bejar solo project, but he sounds his best when performing with capable collaborators. Unsurprisingly, “Rubies” is the most enjoyable Destroyer record since “This Night...
...despite all the evasion, there are themes—like love’s impermanence and the inevitability of suffering—that recur in his songs, keeping things interesting for the attentive listener. In the album’s opening track, Bejar confesses to an unnamed lover, “You disrupt the world’s disorder just by virtue of your grace”, but later laments, “All good things come to an end / the bad ones just go on forever...
Later, in “European Oils,” Bejar channels “Songs of Love and Hate”-era Leonard Cohen, and implores a “hangman’s beautiful daughter” to join him in a declaration of “death to the murderers we’ve loved all our lives...
...that would not seem out of place on Dylan records like “Blood On the Tracks” or “Desire.” While these comparisons don’t hold up if you seriously consider the polyvalent genius and longevity of Dylan, Bejar is at the least a better candidate for “the next Dylan” than any of his contemporaries that have been tapped as such by misguided media outlets—I’m looking at you, Conor Oberst...