This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
I feel obliged to tell you Destroyer singer-guitarist Dan Bejar is also in Can-pop idols The New Pornographers. But I also feel obliged to tell you to disregard that data — it won’t help you get a handle on his vastly different (and, in my humble opinion, vastly superior) solo endeavour Destroyer.
if the Pornos allows Bejar to indulge his popstar leanings, Destroyer’s fifth and freakiest full-length Your Blues lets him get in touch with his inner art-rock maestro. A grand gesture of chamber-pop elegance, its dozen ambitious and stirringly melodic compositions are rendered in opulent tones — swelling string synths, strummy guitars, ringing pianos and bombastic percussion, all layered to support Bejar’s nasal, Neil Tennant-meets-Al Stewart vocals and oblique lyrics. If that combination isn’t intriguing enough to get you out to a gig, well, I don’t know what else to tell you.
