Destroyer Set to Release New Album, Kaputt, January 25th

In the mid-'90s, Dan Bejar started a solo home-recording project called Destroyer. What started as an intimate low-profile project has become a highly-regarded, critically-acclaimed band with eight albums under its belt. On January 25, 2011, Merge Records will release Destroyer's ninth LP entitled Kaputt, the follow-up to 2008's Trouble In Dreams. Between Destroyer and The New Pornographers, who released and toured behind a new album this year, Bejar is one busy man.

In a press release, Bejar lists themes, influences, and allusions on the new album:

Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read... Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker”... Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar’s... Baby blue eyes... 80s Miles Davis... 90s Gil Evans... Last Tango in Paris ... Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again... Fretless bass... The hopelessness of the future of music...The pointlessness of writing songs for today... V-Drums... The superiority of poetry and plays... And what’s to become of film? The Cocaine Addict... American Communism... Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar’s... The LinnDrum - Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls... The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010... The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours... Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence...

Check out a song from Trouble In Dreams and see the tracklisting for Kaputt after the jump.

Kaputt Tracklisting

1) Chinatown
2) Blue Eyes
3) Savage Night at the Opera
4) Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
5) Poor in Love
6) Kaputt
7) Downtown
8) Song for America
9) Bay of Pigs (Detail)



But we won't have to wait until 2011 for new music from Destroyer. On November 2nd, the "Archer On the Beach" single (artwork above) will be released.

MP3: Destroyer - "Dark Leaves Form a Thread" from 2008's Trouble In Dreams

BUY: Kaputt isn't up for pre-order just yet, but you can pre-order the "Archer On the Beach" single right now on Amazon here.