Destroyer

Nothing on Trouble in Dreams has the sprawling, multimovement ambition of 2006's stunning Destroyer's Rubies, though Dan Bejar's more reticent tunes are made with the same imagistic lyricism, detailed observations and biting wit that his cultish fans expect. Here, Bajar narrators are sick with self-hatred, greed and bad love, and every bit as nasty as they are brilliant.

Like Neko Case, his bandmate in the New Pornographers, Destroyer's Dan Bejar has a solo
career that's gone from sideshow to headliner. His latest seals the deal. Bejar's affection
for early-Seventies glam — especially T. Rex and Bowie, when proto-punk canoodled with
prog-rock fantasy flights — remains deep. But he's filtered his cribbing through an indie
rocker's sense of humor and a poet's love of language. "Caution — hot ashes‚/ T... More >