Your Blues

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Your Blues
Studio album by Destroyer
Released	2004
Genre	Indie Rock
Label	Merge
Professional reviews
Pitchfork Media (8.6/10) March 2004
Destroyer chronology
This Night (2002)	Your Blues (2004)	Notorious Lightning & Other Works (2005)

Your Blues is an album by Destroyer, released in 2004.

It was a notable departure from the full-band format of Destroyer's previous few albums, largely featuring MIDI-simulated orchestration as its backing music.

It has been variously described by critics as "some kind of masterpiece, the work of a truly original and iconoclastic talent", "a bold step in a new direction, risking over-the-top theatricality, but with its feet planted firmly on solid ground", "seem[ing] like a work in progress" and "an acquired taste". ^[1]

While, with its Metacritic "Metascore" of 77%, it could be considered to be critically well-received, frontman Dan Bejar conceded that it may be viewed by some as a "half-baked exercise", and the MIDI instrumentation as "completely hokey and completely sabotag[ing] the legitimacy of the songs".^[2]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 References and notes 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Notorious Lightning" – 5:57
2. "It's Gonna Take an Airplane" – 3:41
3. "An Actor's Revenge" – 2:57
4. "The Music Lovers" – 4:22
5. "From Oakland to Warsaw" – 3:11
6. "Your Blues" – 2:57
7. "New Ways of Living" – 4:23
8. "Don't Become the Thing You Hated" – 2:13
9. "Mad Foxes" – 4:45
10. "The Fox and the Hound" – 3:23
11. "What Road" – 3:57
12. "Certain Things You Ought to Know" – 4:25

[edit] Personnel

• Dan Bejar
• John Collins
• David Carswell

[edit] References and notes

[edit] External links

• Streaming version of the track "It's Gonna Take an Airplane"
• Streaming version of the track "The Music Lovers"