DESTROYER - POISON SEASON Vinyl LP

2015 release. Poison Season opens with Vancouver native Dan Bejar swathed in Hunky Dory strings. HeA s a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked charactersA Jesus, Jacob, Judy, JackA simultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the recordA first as swaying, saxophone-stoked A street-rockA and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie. A The first and last songs are actually one song tracked live with quintet,A explains their author. A I even sang with the band. That song always swung between super austere and super mid-A 70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock. In the end, I decided I wanted both. CouldnA t 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.A
Track List:
1.1 Times Square, Poison Season I Destroyer 2:33
1.2 Dream Lover Destroyer 3:49
1.3 Forces from Above Destroyer 5:52
2.1 Hell Is An Open Door Destroyer 3:18
2.2 The River Destroyer 3:36
2.3 Girl in a Sling Destroyer 3:05
2.4 Times Square Destroyer 4:11
3.1 Archer on the Beach Destroyer 4:56
3.2 Midnight Meet the Rain Destroyer 3:25
3.3 Solace's Bride Destroyer 3:44
4.1 Bangkok Destroyer 5:14
4.2 Sun in the Sky Destroyer 5:34
4.3 Times Square, Poison Season II Destroyer 3:03

Label: Merge Records