Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
Published Tuesday, April 04, 2006 by Laura | E-mail this post
Destroyer-European OilsThere is just something about this sort of indie rock that's so decidedly...classy? Mature? Artistic? Majestic? I think majestic is the word I'm looking for, although traces of all those others are present.
Destroyer is pure art, brilliant pop songs wrapped in coats of instruments and rambling guitars, mystical-quality lyrics and genius arrangements. It's not quite the instant catchy, power pop of the New Pornographers, but the thick, layered wonders of
this album is already warranting them comparisons to In An Aeroplane Over the Sea.