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Forgot to mention I’m listening to Destroyer’s latest album Destroyer’s Rubies. Got it right as I was leaving Bangkok and didn’t get a chance to listen to it much. Its got a Lou Reed and/or Ziggy era Bowie feel vocally. A touch of John Cameron Mitchell from “Hedwig and the angry inch”, too. Destroyer is the solo effort of Dan Bejar of The New Pornographers. His lyrics have many references to other songs and his own songs.

Destroyer steaming music from the offical site

Dan Bejar on NPR

The New Pornagraphers on NPR

Plus all the great live concerts from NPR

Destroyer - Watercolours Into the Ocean

Listening to “Strawberry Wine” for the 131st time, it was 1987.
It was spring.
Now it’s 1987 all the time…

Were you even there?
Too thin, too fair, downing your third drink.
Standing at arms length in the square, just off a mildly successful killing
rampage where good writers go to find one thing and stick with it.

Oh, life - it’s bigger than a life on the run from the United States and her
friends on This Night made of jewels.

It took three carabinieri to peel him off the streets of the town
she’s named after.
Dragging the lagoon was a disaster.
They found him alive and relatively well…

Some situations seek redress.
Some songs just go - “testing, testing…”
I took a picture: I was sick of motion…

And wore her watercolours into the ocean…