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Vinyl LP pressing. In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters, Thief and Streethawk A Seductionholds an important place; for not only does it document Dan Bejar's evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also contains a massive percentage of superlative Destroyer Inchclassics.Inch 1998's City of Daughters features some of the first steps out of the demo-tapey experimentation of earlier recordings, with songs like InchComments On The World As WillInch refining the sound of that stripped-down earlier work, and the seminal InchNo Cease FiresInch offering us the first taste of just what a full-band Destroyer might conjure. Album Tracks 1. Comments on the World As Will 2. No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby) 3. Dark Purposes 4. Emax I 5. I Want This Cyclops 6. Loves of a Gnostic 7. Emax II 8. State of the Union 9. School, and the Girls Who Go There 10. The Space Race 11. Melanie and Jennifer and Melanie 12. War on Jazz II or How I Learned to Love the War on Jazz 13. Emax III 14. You Were So Cruel 15. Signs 16. Rereading the Marble Faun 17. Son of the Earth
