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Destroyer - City of Daughters (Reissue)[LTD. ED. Red color vinyl]

Destroyer - City of Daughters (Reissue)[LTD. ED. Red color vinyl]

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This special 20th anniversary reissue, pressed on red vinyl in a limited one-time run, marks the album’s first-ever appearance on LP in the US. Includes album download.

Dan Bejar is one of the most accomplished songwriters of the 2000s; there is no debating this. And if you happened to hear City of Daughters upon its release in 1998, you would have been one of the chosen few who could have predicted this trajectory. While the album doesn’t contain the sonic splendor found on future efforts, it was the first time Bejar expanded beyond accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, which allowed his songwriting vision to become more fully formed. “No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby)” is arguably the first classic Destroyer song, with the kind of musical and lyrical twists and turns that put it in the same class as any of Bejar’s best. Meanwhile, “I Want This Cyclops” is one of the first Destroyer songs that begs for a line-by-line breakdown to fully appreciate the higher plane of lyricism that Bejar works on. Listening to City of Daughters twenty years after the fact is a rare treat, a chance to hear one of our era’s greats when he’s slightly unguarded and coming into his voice. For many, it would be a career highlight. For Destroyer, it was a pivotal launching point.

  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

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Care Instructions

Keep away from the sun.

Never place it next to a Justin Bieber record.

Treat it like your grandma, you know if she was a record. Know what I mean? Tender care, don't talk back, and never interupt during Murder She Wrote. Wait - what the hell was I writing about-

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