Destroyer: Poison Season
Bud Scoppa, Uncut, September 2015
DAN BEJAR'S 19-year climb from lo-fi-bedroom obscurity to wider acclaim was slowed somewhat by the defiantly abstruse nature of his early recordings. But over time — before the soft grandeur of his 2011 breakout, Kaputt, at least — the Vancouver native began embedding tantalising nuggets of a more welcoming song-form amid the distancing Dadaisms and abstractions that dominated his albums.
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