Destroyer's Rubies

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  2006

  James

  Destroyer's Rubies is the album Dan Bejar had been working towards from the start. Kapuut eventually became the popular consensus, but it's the peak Destroyer LP and a stunning masterpiece of 00's indie rock. It feels luxurious and unstable at the same time, full of glam-rock drift, literary excess, strange humor, and emotional evasiveness. Bejar writes in dense, slippery fragments that gradually reveal loneliness and self-consciousness beneath the wit and theatricality. Songs wander confidently without losing melodic focus, especially “Rubies” and “European Oils.”