{"id":27798,"date":"2017-08-28T20:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27798"},"modified":"2017-08-29T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:38:43","slug":"destroyer-discloses-new-album-watch-lyric-video-for-foreboding-new-song-skys-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-08\/destroyer-discloses-new-album-watch-lyric-video-for-foreboding-new-song-skys-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroyer Discloses New Album–Watch Lyric Video for Foreboding New Song “Sky’s Grey”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fantastic Canadian band Destroyer<\/strong><\/a> has announced it will release new album ken<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on October 20th on\u00a0Merge Records<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0News of a new Destroyer<\/strong> album is cause enough for celebration, but the relative quickness of its release also puts to rest concern that leader (and\u00a0raison d’\u00eatre)<\/em>\u00a0Dan Bejar<\/strong> will be taking more and more time between each new album to set things right. Reversing a trend that has seen three and four-year gaps between albums, ken<\/strong><\/em> will be released a scant two years since the fantastic Poison Season\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>alighted.<\/p>\n

To give a feel for the new album, Destroyer<\/strong>\u00a0has released the lyric video below for their beautiful, but foreboding new song Sky’s Grey<\/strong><\/em>. We will have to see about the overall tenor of the album, but Sky’s Grey<\/strong><\/em> can’t help but remind us of the phenomenal (and phenomenally-underappreciated-by-Americans) Brit band Prefab Sprou<\/strong><\/a>t<\/strong>. To our ears\u00a0Sky’s Grey <\/strong><\/em>is somewhat an amalgam of Prefab Sprout’s<\/strong> quintessential Two Wheels Good<\/strong><\/em> album (listen to tracks at bottom). While Destroyer’s<\/strong>\u00a0outstanding album Kaputt<\/strong><\/em> seemed an homage to Steely Dan\/Bryan Ferry\u00a0<\/strong>and Poison Season<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0seemed dedicated to Bowie\/Springsteen<\/strong>, Sky’s Grey<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0may reveal that Bejar<\/strong>\u00a0reveres\u00a0Prefab Sprout<\/strong>. Check it out below and compare to the Prefab Sprout<\/strong> samples at bottom.<\/p>\n

Sky’s Grey<\/strong><\/em> strikes us as foreboding commentary about the current American administration and its “base”: “Bombs in the city, plays in the sticks,” and “Come one, come all, dear young revolutionary capitalists, the groom\u2019s in the gutter, the bride just pissed herself, I\u2019ve been working on the new Oliver Twist.\u201d Regardless, the song plays well to the base in our environs.<\/p>\n

Bejar<\/strong> explains the inspiration for the album\u2019s title:<\/div>\n

\u201cSometime last year, I discovered that the original name for \u2018The Wild Ones\u2019 (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was \u2018Ken\u2019. I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It\u2019s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe \u2018The Wild Ones\u2019 speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think \u2018ken\u2019 also means \u2018to know.’\u201d<\/p>\n

You can pre-order ken<\/strong><\/em> HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n