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Destroyer albums featuring John Collins
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| | Your Blues CD (2004)
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Vancouver's Destroyer has been a fairly prolific project for sometime-New Pornographer Dan Bejar. YOUR BLUES (2004) is a dense trip through Bejar's grandiose pop. Whereas on previous albums Bejar was joined by other musicians, on YOUR BLUES he is flying ...
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| Destroyer's Rubies CD (2006)
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There are enough reasons for some listeners to dismiss Destroyer (aka Dan Bejar) right off--his self-consciously literate lyrics, his precious sense of theatricality, and his shameless David Bowie obsession, to name a few. Yet Bejar makes all of these potential ...
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 Destroyer Songs
Popular or famous Destroyer songs: Introducing Angels, Plaza Trinidad, Dark Leaves Form a Thread, Foam Hands, Leopard of Honor. More music songs Libby's First Sunrise, Rivers, State, My Favorite Year, Shooting Rockets, Blue Flower/Blue Flame, Notorious Lightning, Actor's Revenge. More music songs Don't Become the Thing You Hated, Music Lovers, Certain Things You Ought to Know, Fox and the Hound, From Oakland to Warsaw. More music songs It's Gonna Take an Airplane.
Destroyer Biography
As an occasional member of Canadian pop supergroup the New Pornographers, Dan Bejar brings some serious indie cred to his early-2000s solo project, Destroyer. But while the New Pornos are all about Big Star riffs and Beatlesque harmonies, Destroyer is all about David Bowie. In fact, Bejar has often been accused of taking his Thin White Duke obsession well beyond the realm of acceptable homage. But one listen to Destroyer's stark, catchy glitter-folk, and all such accusations are rendered irrelevant.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Daniel Bejar | New Pornographers, Battles | | Fisher Rose | New Pornographers, A.C. Newman | | Nicholas Bragg | | John Collins | Nat "King" Cole, Nancy Wilson, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, New Pornographers, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Sarah Vaughan, Natalie Cole | | Ted Bois | Pink Mountaintops, Young & Sexy | | Tim Loewen | Loscil |
Worked With
Hate
Contemporaries
Smog, Modest Mouse, M. Ward, Silver Jews, The Decemberists, The Shins, The French Kicks, The Clientele, The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel, Grandaddy, Dr. Dog, Portastatic, Jeremy Enigk, David Vandervelde, Crooked Fingers, The Wrens, Firewater, The Essex Green, Luke Haines, Fiver, Benjy Ferree, Luna Band
Influences
The Beatles, David Bowie, T. Rex, Lou Reed, Steely Dan, Syd Barrett, Sparks, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Coyne
More Music Artists
Cuarteto Caney, Carlo Zecchi
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