I guess that’s how they launched ships way way back when the first line of the first song off the first Destroyer album got laid to tape… A cassette tape, actually, in a borrowed 4-track. Those recordings and a few slightly older ones would later see the light of day on a CD that came out called We’ll Build Them A Golden Bridge. And now it’s coming out again, after a few years of OOP oblivion. The artwork’s changed cause apparently the man can afford many colors now, not just the black ones and the white ones, though some will argue that the changes reflect the sum of the parts of the difference between 1996 and 2006. Argue on, we say. The album contains two numbers that would go on to be New Pornographers songs, as well as a song called The Pornographers. And a country song. and another country song, and a few bars of a Bacharach/David song, and a couple other songs somewhat under the spell of Barrett, and then a few more on top of that. It employs most of the bag of tricks that we have all since come to know as Bejar’s Bag – miniature violin, midi-Sax, the “ocean” function of a Casio, broken snare, 4-string guitar, a line about the fact that you’ve just quoted an Orange Juice song… The sound of 1995 we used to call it… Too bad the record came out in 1996… It is said that this CD almost single-handedly buried the Destroyer franchise, and, if for that reason alone, it demands the scrutiny of lovers and haters alike. Enjoy the curios…
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