{"product_id":"destroyer-poison-season-0656605140629","title":"Poison Season","description":"Destroyer's Poison Season opens swathed in Hunky Dory strings. Dan Bejar's a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked characters-Jesus, Jacob, Judy, Jack-simultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the record-first as swaying, saxophone-stoked \"street-rock\" and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie. \u003cbr\u003e Broadway Danny Bejar dramatically switches scenes with \"Dream Lover,\" all Style Council strut and brassy, radio-ready bombast (echoes of The Boo Radleys' evergreen earworm \"Wake Up Boo!\"). This being Destroyer, its paramours-on-the-run exuberance is judiciously spiked by his deadpan delivery: \"Oh shit, here comes the sun…\" \u003cbr\u003e Like the other DB, Mr. Bejar has long displayed a chameleonic instinct for change while maintaining a unified aesthetic (rather than just pinballing between reference points). No two records sound the same, but they're always uniquely Destroyer. His latest incarnation often appears to take sonic cues from a distinctly British (usually Scottish, to be precise) strain of sophisti-pop: you might hear traces of Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Orange Juice, or The Blow Monkeys. These songs merge a casual literary brilliance with intense melodic verve, nimble arrangements, and a certain blue-eyed soul sadness. \u003cbr\u003e Playfully rueful, \"Sun in the Sky\" foregrounds cryptic lyrical dexterity over pop-classicist strum before gradually left-fielding into rhythmically supple, delirious avant-squall. It's as if Talk Talk took over a Lloyd Cole show. Originally released on a collaborative EP with electronic maestros Tim Hecker and Loscil (the latter's drones are retained here), a retooled \"Archer on the Beach\" suggests Sade swimming in The Blue Nile, smooth-jazz marimba melancholy dilated by ecstatic ambience.","brand":"375 Media GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53439296045398,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_0656605140629_1_1fa04c44-e518-4b9f-80f4-403dbadd7580.jpg?v=1777978289","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/destroyer-poison-season-0656605140629","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}