Destroyer Songs List

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar's lyrics are sad-poet spirals, glancing off politics, sex, drugs and music, and packed with perfect New Wave laments..."

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

Spin: "KEN's plasticine backdrops offer pleasantly ironic runways for some of the strongest, or at least stickiest, lyrics Bejar's ever written."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Sky's Grey
• 2.In the Morning
• 3.Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
• 4.Cover From the Sun
• 5.Saw You at the Hospital
• 6.A Light Travels Down the Catwalk
• 7.Rome
• 8.Sometimes in the World
• 9.Ivory Coast
• 10.Stay Lost
• 11.Regle du Jeu, La

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar stacks rainy-New York sax magic, sad-astronaut strings and hippie jazzbo grooving to make songs that are as wryly hilarious as they are weirdly affecting."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Times Square, Poison Season I
• 2.Dream Lover
• 3.Forces From Above
• 4.Hell
• 5.The River
• 6.Girl in a Sling
• 7.Times Square
• 8.Archer on the Beach
• 9.Midnight Meet the Rain
• 10.Solace's Bride
• 11.Bangkok
• 12.Sun in the Sky
• 13.Times Square, Poison Season II

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 9.I.H.O.J
• 10.In Dreams
• 11.Death on the Festival Circuit
• 12.M.E.R.C.I
• 13.Thief
• 1.Destroyer S the Temple
• 2.To the Heart of the Sun on the Back of the Vulture, I'll Go
• 3.The Way of Perpetual Roads
• 4.Canadian Lover/Falcon's Escape
• 5.City of Daughters
• 6.Every Christmas
• 7.Mercy (We Had the Right)
• 8.Queen of Languages

Spin: 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gloriously guitar-spangled, word-addled glam jams 'My Favorite Year' and 'Rivers' rock like T. Rex via T.S. Eliot..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Blue Flower/Blue Flame
• 2.Dark Leaves Form A Thread
• 3.The State
• 4.Foam Hands
• 5.My Favorite Year
• 6.Shooting Rockets (From The Desk Of Night's Ape)
• 7.Introducing Angles
• 8.Rivers
• 9.Leopard Of Honor
• 10.Plaza Trindad
• 11.Libby's First Sunrise

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Notorious Lightning
• 2.New Ways of Living
• 3.Music Lovers
• 4.Actor's Revenge
• 5.Don't Become the Thing You Hated
• 6.Your Blues

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Maria de Las Nieves
• 2.Del Monton
• 3.El Rito
• 4.Babieca
• 5.Bye Bye

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 7.A Dangerous Woman Up To A Point
• 8.Priest's Knees
• 9.Water Colours Into The Ocean
• 10.Sick Priest Learns To Last Forever
• 1.Rubies
• 2.In Your Blood
• 3.European Oils
• 4.Painter In Your Pocket
• 5.Looters' Follies
• 6.3000 Flowers

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Streethawk I
• 2.The Bad Arts
• 3.Beggars Might Ride
• 4.The Sublimation Hour
• 5.English Music
• 6.Virgin with a Memory
• 7.The Very Modern Dance
• 8.The Crossover
• 9.Helena
• 10.Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sea of Tears)
• 11.Strike
• 12.Streethawk II

NME (Magazine): 4 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar and his producer-bandmate John Collins draw upon touchstones as wide-ranging as horror movie scores, synthetic sounds and the brooding electronica of Leonard Cohen's I'M YOUR MAN."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Crimson Tide
• 2.Kinda Dark
• 3.It Just Doesn’t Happen
• 4.The Television Music Supervisor
• 5.The Raven
• 6.Cue Synthesizer
• 7.University Hill
• 8.Have We Met
• 9.The Man in Black’s Blues
• 10.Foolssong

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.This Night
• 2.Holly Going Lightly
• 3.Here Comes the Night
• 4.The Chosen Few
• 5.Makin' Angels
• 6.Hey, Snow White
• 7.Modern Painters
• 8.Crystal Country
• 9.Trembling Peacock
• 10.I Have Seen a Light
• 11.Students Carve Hearts out of Coal
• 12.Goddess of Drought
• 13.Self Portrait With Thing (Tonight Is Not Your Night) - (Tonight Is Not Your Night)
• 14.The Relevant Ballads
• 15.The Night Moves

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Comments on the World as Will
• 2.No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby)
• 17.Son of the Earth
• 3.Dark Purposes
• 4.Emax I
• 5.I Want the 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 II
• 14.You Were so Cruel
• 15.Signs
• 16.Rereading the Marble Faun

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.It's in Your Heart Now
• 2.Suffer
• 3.June
• 4.All My Pretty Dresses
• 5.Tintoretto, It's for You
• 6.Labrynthitis
• 7.Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread
• 8.It Takes a Thief
• 9.The States
• 10.The Last Song

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.It's In Your Heart Now
• 2.Suffer
• 3.June
• 4.All My Pretty Dresses
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Tintoretto, It's For You
• 2.Labyrinthitis
• 3.Eat The Wine, Drink The Bread
• 4.It Takes A Thief
• 5.The States
• 6.The Last Song

Spin: "[W]ith a dozen songs as dark and sweet as baking chocolate and as ambitious as the Mars rover." - Grade" B+

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Notorious Lightning
• 2.It's Gonna Take an Airplane
• 3.An Actor's Revenge
• 4.The Music Lovers
• 5.From Oakland to Warsaw
• 6.Your Blues
• 7.New Ways of Living
• 8.Don't Become the Thing You Hated
• 9.Mad Foxes
• 10.The Fox and the Hound
• 11.What Road
• 12.Certain Things You Ought to Know

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Maria de las nieves
• 2.Del monton
• 3.El rito
• 4.Babieca
• 5.Bye bye

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar's lyrics are sad-poet spirals, glancing off politics, sex, drugs and music, and packed with perfect New Wave laments..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 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)
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.The Laziest River

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar stacks rainy-New York sax magic, sad-astronaut strings and hippie jazzbo grooving to make songs that are as wryly hilarious as they are weirdly affecting."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Times Square, Poison Season I Destroyer [2:33]
• 2.Dream Lover Destroyer [3:49]
• 3.Forces from Above Destroyer [5:52]
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Hell Is An Open Door Destroyer [3:18]
• 2.The River Destroyer [3:36]
• 3.Girl in a Sling Destroyer [3:05]
• 4.Times Square Destroyer [4:11]
• Tracks of Disc 3
• 1.Archer on the Beach Destroyer [4:56]
• 2.Midnight Meet the Rain Destroyer [3:25]
• 3.Solace's Bride Destroyer [3:44]
• Tracks of Disc 4
• 1.Bangkok Destroyer [5:14]
• 2.Sun in the Sky Destroyer [5:34]
• 3.Times Square, Poison Season Ii Destroyer [3:03]

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Rubies
• 2.Your Blood
• 3.European Oils
• 4.Painter in Your Pocket
• 5.Looters' Follies
• 6.3000 Flowers
• 7.A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point
• 8.Priest's Knees
• 9.Watercolours into the Ocean
• 10.Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever

Spin: "KEN's plasticine backdrops offer pleasantly ironic runways for some of the strongest, or at least stickiest, lyrics Bejar's ever written."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Sky's Grey
• 2.In The Morning
• 3.Tinseltown Swimming In Blood
• 4.Cover From The Sun
• 5.Saw You At The Hospital
• 6.A Light Travels Down The Catwalk
• 7.Rome
• 8.Sometimes In The World
• 9.Ivory Coast
• 10.Stay Lost
• 11.La Regle Du Jeu

Spin: "KEN's plasticine backdrops offer pleasantly ironic runways for some of the strongest, or at least stickiest, lyrics Bejar's ever written."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Sky's Grey
• 2.In the Morning
• 3.Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
• 4.Cover From the Sun
• 5.Saw You at the Hospital
• 6.A Light Travels Down the Catwalk
• 7.Rome
• 8.Sometimes in the World
• 9.Ivory Coast
• 10.Stay Lost
• 11.Regle du Jeu, La

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar stacks rainy-New York sax magic, sad-astronaut strings and hippie jazzbo grooving to make songs that are as wryly hilarious as they are weirdly affecting."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Times Square, Poison Season
• 2.Dream Lover
• 3.Forces from Above
• 4.Hell
• 5.The River
• 6.Girl in a Sling
• 7.Times Square
• 8.Archer on the Beach
• 9.Midnight Meet the Rain
• 10.Solace's Bride
• 11.Bangkok
• 12.Sun in the Sky
• 13.Times Square, Poison Season Ii

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Destroyer's the Temple
• 2.To the Heart of the Sun on the Back of the Vulture, I'll Go
• 3.The Way of Perpetual Roads
• 4.Canadian Lover / Falcon's Escape
• 5.City of Daughters
• 6.Every Christmas
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Mercy (We Had the Right)
• 2.Queen of Languages
• 3.I.H.O.J.
• 4.In Dreams
• 5.Death on the Festival Circuit
• 6.M.E.R.C.I.
• 7.Thief

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 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

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar stacks rainy-New York sax magic, sad-astronaut strings and hippie jazzbo grooving to make songs that are as wryly hilarious as they are weirdly affecting."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Times Square, Poison Season I
• 2.Dream Lover
• 3.Forces from Above
• 4.Hell
• 5.The River
• 6.Girl in a Sling
• 7.Times Square
• 8.Archer on the Beach
• 9.Midnight Meet the Rain
• 10.Solace's Bride
• 11.Bangkok
• 12.Sun in the Sky
• 13.Times Square, Poison Season II

Spin: 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gloriously guitar-spangled, word-addled glam jams 'My Favorite Year' and 'Rivers' rock like T. Rex via T.S. Eliot..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Blue Flower, Blue Flame
• 2.Dark Leaves Form a Thread
• 3.The State
• 4.Foam Hands
• 5.My Favorite Year
• 6.Shooting Rockets From the Desk of Night's Ape
• 7.Introducing Angels
• 8.Rivers
• 9.Leopard of Honor
• 10.Plaza Trinidad
• 11.Libby's First Sunrise

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.This Night
• 2.Holly Going Lightly
• 3.Here Comes The Night
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.The Chosen Few
• 2.Makin' Angels
• 3.Hey, Snow White
• Tracks of Disc 3
• 1.Modern Painters
• 2.Crystal Country
• 3.Trembling Peacock
• 4.I Have Seen A Light
• Tracks of Disc 4
• 1.Students Carve Hearts Out Of Coal
• 2.Goddess Of Drought
• 3.Self Portrait With Thing (Tonight Is Not Your Night)
• 4.The Relevant Ballads
• 5.The Night Moves

NME (Magazine): 4 stars out of 5 -- "Bejar and his producer-bandmate John Collins draw upon touchstones as wide-ranging as horror movie scores, synthetic sounds and the brooding electronica of Leonard Cohen's I'M YOUR MAN."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Crimson Tide
• 2.Kinda Dark
• 3.It Just Doesn't Happen
• 4.The Television Music Supervisor
• 5.The Raven
• 6.Cue Synthesizer
• 7.University Hill
• 8.Have We Met
• 9.The Man in Black's Blues
• 10.Foolssong

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Maria De Las Nieves
• 2.Del Monton
• 3.Rito, El
• 4.Babieca
• 5.Bye Bye