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Junkmedia

Your Blues is some kind of masterpiece, the work of a truly original and iconoclastic talent.

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Filter

Schizophrenic, stark, and even with its pretentious theatrics, this is an amazing record. [#9, p.104]

Pitchfork

The record's conceptual brilliance lies largely in Bejar's ability to craft deeply moving passages out of ostensibly artificial and contrived elements, subtly suggesting that all music, if not all human expression, is in effect some sort of artifice.

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cokemachineglow

So yeah, the cheese gets awfully thick, but unlike most other groups purposely pushing the boundaries of bad taste in the past few years, Dan Bejar remembers to at least bring along some great songs.

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Spin

As dark and sweet as baking chocolate and as ambitious as the Mars rover. [Apr 2004, p.94]

Neumu.net

Whilst Bejar's songs are blessed with mucho rhythm and melody, you should still be made aware that there's no real beat, no real bass, and little that sounds organic. Yet there's still something quite regal and symphonic about it all, the synthesized strings and horns and piano stirring up a romanticism that goes with Bejar's fancy-pants lyricism.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Filled with quirky and inventive pop songs packed with sultry harmonies and an immense level of musical intuitiveness.

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All Music Guide

2004's early front-runner for art rock album of the year.

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PopMatters

Although the faux strings, drums and horns do feel a bit contrived at points the overwhelming feel is one of ambition rather than pretension.

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Dusted Magazine

Your Blues is a bold step in a new direction, risking over-the-top theatricality, but with its feet planted firmly on solid ground.

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Blender

Destroyer's slickest synthesis yet of ornate hooks and cryptic poetics. [Apr 2004, p.127]

Splendid

It doesn't always work.... But when it does, in the blended tones and dark piano chords of "The Fox and the Hound", the result is magical and otherworldly.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Bejar's shifting style seems like a work in progress, and a lot of these songs are too much of nothing. [17 Mar 2004]

Uncut

An acquired taste. [Jan 2005, p.124]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes

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Danger Cart gave it a 10:
This album is just one of those things you hear when everything is terrific. If you don't absoultely love a good percentage of this album, you've failed as a music fan. There. I said it. I'd say it again if I had to.

Cody H gave it a 10:
Totally unbelievable. Dan Bejar is truly a genius. For him to create an album so beautiful and moving using such a cold inhuman sonic palette as the MIDI synth is breathtaking. My pick for best album of the year thus far.

Guy M gave it a 10:
fantastic just fantastic and it makes me cry too Votre, Guy.

willsley open gave it a 2:
dull

Queenie McFadden gave it a 9:
A pure delight! All the nuts synth stuff from the previous records unleashed in greater doses, with some of his most brilliant lyrics to date. "Notorious Lightning" and "New Ways of Living," especially. While it saddens me that Dan Bejar isn't that 'popular' among many in the snotty indie set, it also makes me love the guy for making such bizarre and brilliant music--so bizarre and brilliant, in fact, that most people don't know about him.....

bill parcels gave it a 10:
Sick.

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