OUGHT’S NEW ROOM INSIDE THE WORLD
Montreal quartet Ought have changed things up dramatically on the lead single ‘These 3 Things’ from their forthcoming third album Room Inside The World. Alongside their usual instrumentation, they employ an array electronic gadgetry and bring synthetic beats into the disciplined fray. Band leader Tim Darcy croons about the tenuous state between connection and identity […]
DAN BEJAR PLAYS THE DYSTOPIAN PROTAGONIST ON NEW DESTROYER VIDEO
“I had no feeling, I had no past, I was the arctic, I was the vast, Spaces without reprieve”. It’s clear in the thematic approach he has taken on his new album ken that Dan Bejar is not fucking around when choosing his metaphors to describe the diabolical state of the world after 30 years of reductive […]
DESTROYER RETURNS WITH KEN
“Bombs in the city, plays in the sticks.” Sky’s Grey. Early last month Vancouver artist Dan Bejar announced the release date for his new Destroyer album. Album number 12 is simply called ken, a reference to the original title of English band Suede’s 1994 track ‘The Wild Ones’ off Dog Man Star, it follows 2015’s […]