Destroyer - Have We Met (2020)
Destroyer - Have We Met (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 241 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 Mb | 00:42:16
Indie Folk, Chamber Pop, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Merge Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 241 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 Mb | 00:42:16
Indie Folk, Chamber Pop, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Merge Records
Throughout the late ’90s and 2000s, Destroyer was essentially a guitar band. Whether principal singer-songwriter (and erstwhile New Pornographer) Dan Bejar was exploring glam rock’s velvety contours (2001’s Streethawk: A Seduction), experimenting with drum- and bass-less baroque pop (2004’s Your Blues), or orchestrating a grand rock opus (2006’s Destroyer’s Rubies), six strings generally provided his songs their backbone. That changed with 2011’s Kaputt. “I cast down the guitar in disgust,” the Vancouver-based Bejar tells Apple Music, partly kidding, but mostly serious. Kaputt’s focus on atmosphere and mood (its soft-rock synths, fretless bass, ’80s jazz-pop saxophones) signaled a major shift in not only how Bejar would write songs (“I like to avoid writing on an instrument at all,” he says), but also how each of his subsequent albums would sound. The experiments with chamber strings and horns on 2015’s Poison Season and the apocalyptic New Wave of 2017’s ken were essentially a lead-up to the band’s 12th album, Have We Met, Bejar’s most self-aware, confident, and abstract work to date. It’s also his darkest, filled with scenes of violence, isolation, and existential dread, most of which Bejar wrote and sang into his laptop at his kitchen table at night. (He then sent those files to bandmates John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, who added everything from bass, drums, keys, and guitar to the glitchy bee-swarm textures that close out the LP.) But for all its excursions into the unknown, Have We Met is still very much a Destroyer album—those hyper-literate, self-referential lyrical flourishes and melodic arrangements that have become Bejar’s signature still fully intact. No matter how different things might feel this time around, "You can see a Destroyer song coming a mile away,” Bejar says.Tracklist:
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar initially conceived of Have We Met as a Y2K album. He was already active during the era but not heard overhead in a cafe or salon, which is perhaps what the idea of the Y2K sound evokes nearly two decades later. Bejar assigned frequent producer and bandmate John Collins the role of layering synth and rhythm sections over demos with the period-specific Björk, Air, and Massive Attack in mind, but he soon realized the sonic template was too removed from Destroyer’s own, and the idea of a concept was silly anyway. So he abandoned it and gave Collins the most timeless instruction of all: “Make it sound cool.”
Atmosphere and loose approximations of a place or feeling are what we’ve come to expect from any new Destroyer record—certainly not an easily defined and stridently adhered to theme or concept. Have We Met manages to meet somewhere between those disparate Y2K reference points and Destroyer’s own area of expertise, gliding deftly into territory that marries the old strident Destroyer with the new, aged crooning one of late.
1. Crimson Tide (06:09)
2. Kinda Dark (03:25)
3. It Just Doesn’t Happen (05:01)
4. The Television Music Supervisor (04:09)
5. The Raven (03:35)
6. Cue Synthesizer (03:55)
7. University Hill (03:39)
8. Have We Met (02:54)
9. The Man in Black’s Blues (03:39)
10. Foolssong (05:45)
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Destroyer / Have We Met
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EAC extraction logfile from 6. March 2020, 14:23
Destroyer / Have We Met
Used drive : PLDS DVDRWBD DH-6E2S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -e -p -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 6:09.74 | 0 | 27748
2 | 6:09.74 | 3:25.00 | 27749 | 43123
3 | 9:34.74 | 5:01.00 | 43124 | 65698
4 | 14:35.74 | 4:09.71 | 65699 | 84444
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7 | 26:16.35 | 3:39.72 | 118235 | 134731
8 | 29:56.32 | 2:54.67 | 134732 | 147848
9 | 32:51.24 | 3:39.46 | 147849 | 164319
10 | 36:30.70 | 5:45.05 | 164320 | 190199
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Filename C:\EAC\Destroyer - 2020 - Have We Met -flac%\03 - It Just Doesn't Happen.wav
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Filename C:\EAC\Destroyer - 2020 - Have We Met -flac%\04 - The Television Music Supervisor.wav
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Filename C:\EAC\Destroyer - 2020 - Have We Met -flac%\09 - The Man in Black's Blues.wav
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Track 10
Filename C:\EAC\Destroyer - 2020 - Have We Met -flac%\10 - foolssong.wav
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