![]() ![]() Already in March 2015 he released on the label Dead Oceans the next album Primrose Green, which received only the best critics. He recorded at Tompkins Square his debut collection All Kinds OF You and was straight nominated for the best album of the year 2014 from the magazine Uncut. This was already a great experience, but now you can see him with his solo, jazz and folk repertoire. He performed with Daniel Bachman (Sacred Harp) an instrumental repertoire ala John Fahey. The Czech audience had already the chance to see Ryley Walker live – at the concert series Ostinato in autumn 2013. Certain turns of phrase bring to mind singers like Scott Walker and Harry Nilsson when they’d all but sabotaged their careers, avoiding all the concessions of pop in favor of their own muses’ peculiar paths.” But Destroyer is judicious to draw from the more neglected corners of the canon, too. NPR Music’s Andy Beta wrote of Poison Season, “As is often the case in Bejar’s work, he touches upon the rock music that came before him, his whispers on Poison Season bringing to mind the likes of Bryan Ferry’s weary playboy circa Avalon, as well as Al Stewart’s gentle croon on Year Of The Cat. He was surprised, that no other band had this idea before and just went for it. Later on he needed to explain many times, that he didn’t know about the Kiss album Destroyer. Bejar said, that he wanted to give the band a name, which doesn’t say, what kind of music the band is playing. ![]() The price won in the end the band Arcade Fire, which are on the same publisher Merge Records. In 2011 he was nominated for the prestige award Polaris Music Price. His debut album We’ll Build Them A Golden Bridge was released in 1996. His is a body of work that consistently flouts convention in favor of musical leaps of faith, statements of purpose cloaked in subterfuge, and the joyous refrain of an optimist’s heart cloaked in cynicism.ĭuring his career he released ten albums and played in bands like The New Pornographers and Swan Lake. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, MIDI, yacht rock, and even underground Spanish independent artists, Bejar was proclaimed “Rock’s Exiled King” by The Fader. With his 8 men ensemble he is performing on the 22 nd of June in the Lucerna Music Bar in Prague.ĭan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. He is bringing his new and very successful album Poison Season, which was released last year. Dan Bejar (DESTROYER), born in Vancouver, is coming for the very first time in his 20 year long career to the Czech Republic. ![]()
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