
- Summary: Dan Bejar's seventh Destroyer record is as lyrically dense as ever, but marks a shift to a full-band, guitar-oriented sound after 2004's more eclectic 'Your Blues.'
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 30
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Mixed: 1 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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It's an easy Destroyer album to love, approachable as both a collection of strong rock songs and a literary exercise in just how far songs can stretch to make sense of the words within them.
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SpinHooky, spare, and lush all at once. [Mar 2006, p.95]
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Destroyer’s Rubies is every bit as marvelous as his landmark Streethawk: A Seduction.
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Destroyer’s Rubies is one of those rare albums whose literary value is so compelling as to make any imperfections simply blend in as an essential part of the storyline.
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Bejars songs have, in the past, sometimes seemed like vehicles for his lyrics, yet with Destroyer’s Rubies he seems to have made peace with the musical element of his work as well.
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It feels like an event: grand, sumptuous, sometimes seductive.
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Overall, listeners will struggle to classify "Rubies," as much for Bejar's blurring of bluesy folk, pop and lo-fi indie rock as his unconventional delivery.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 55 out of 74
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Mixed: 9 out of 74
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Negative: 10 out of 74
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Jan 31, 2021
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TBoneMar 11, 2006
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AnthonyJun 28, 2006Stupendous album! All the tracks are great! For the people who claim Bejar's voice sucks, they have never heard Dylan.
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ErikMar 3, 2006The best album of 2006 so far. (March 3rd) Worthy of multiple listens. Strikingly original.
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codedelphiJun 11, 2006
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rtJan 9, 2008
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laurenwMar 2, 2006no words neccessary...
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