Good evening everyone, and welcome to another Band of the Week/Thursday Blues post on Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice. Today we'll be featuring, like every Thursday, some old-fashioned blues and, of course, the band of the week. I'll start with the latter;
The Band of the Week: Destroyer
Literate, elegant, full of marvelous grandeur, who else could I be talking about but Mr. Dan Bejar, who plays music under the moniker Destroyer (Which he insists is not a solo project, but a fully functioning band. Though, it does have a rather fluctuating lineup, so it is much easy to just refer to it as a solo project) . Mr.Bejar is also a member of the supergroups The New Pornographers and Swan Lake. Now, he is a very impressive and talented musician, don't get me wrong, but what's really most impressive about Mr.Bejar is his astounding lyrics. I can only think of a few artists who're such masters of word play and annunciation. There are only a couple artists who can make me pull out a dictionary, and I can honestly say that Destroyer is one. Listen to a couple tracks and you might just become as obsessed as I am.
Rubies - Destroyer
Epic is completely over-used when describing this song, but it is just so fitting.
Blue Flower / Blue Flame - Destroyer
A beautiful track off his new album, Trouble In Dreams.
and for the blues portion of the post ...
Future Blues - Willie Brown
and for the first time in blog history ...
Slide Blues Jam - Sean Antaya (of The Psychedelic Blues Explosion obscureness)
Enjoy, and remember to wish me a happy birthday tomorrow!
