Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. More than an arcane puzzle for the listener, Labyrinthitis warps and winds through unfamiliar territory for Bejar as well. Written largely in 2020 and recorded the following spring, the album most often finds Bejar and frequent collaborator John Collins seeking the mythic artifacts buried somewhere under the dance floor, from the glitzy spiral of InchIt Takes a ThiefInch to the Books-ian collage bliss of the title track. Initial song ideas ventured forth from disco, Art of Noise, and New Order, Bejar and Collins championing the over-the-top madcappery. InchJohn is in his 50s, and I'm almost there, but we used to go to clubs,Inch Bejar laughs. InchOur version may have been punk clubs, but our touchstones for the album were more true to disco.Inch Album Tracks 1. It's in Your Heart Now 2. Suffer 3. June 4. All My Pretty Dresses 5. Tintoretto, It's for You 6. Labyrinthitis 7. Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread 8. It Takes a Thief 9. The States 10. The Last Song

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. 2000's Thief naturally went further down that road, and from the opening strums of InchThe TempleInch to the arty quirk of InchQueen of LanguagesInch to the gentle, jagged comedown of the title track, it soon became clear that Bejar was a master of a singular songcraft - and one that was only just getting started. Album Tracks 1. Destroyer's the Temple 2. To the Heart of the Sun on the Back of the Vulture, I'll Go 3. The Way of Perpetual Roads 4. Canadian Lover/Falcon's Escape 5. City of Daughters 6. Every Christmas 7. Mercy (We Had the Right) 8. Queen of Languages 9. I.H.O.J 10. In Dreams 11. Death on the Festival Circuit 12. M.E.R.C.I 13. Thief

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