Destroyer – Poison Season 2LP

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2015 release. Poison Season opens with Vancouver native Dan Bejar swathed in Hunky Dory strings. Hes a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked charactersJesus, Jacob, Judy, Jacksimultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the recordfirst as swaying, saxophone-stoked street-rock and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie. The first and last songs are actually one song tracked live with quintet, explains their author. I even sang with the band. That song always swung between super austere and super mid-70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock. In the end, I decided I wanted both. Couldnt really figure out a way to sequence the orchestral version within the record, so I decided to carve it up as a book-ending motif, with the rock version squarely in the middle.