We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge

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We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge
Studio album by Destroyer
Released	1996
Genre	Indie Rock
Label	Tinker
Professional reviews
Pitchfork (6.5/10) Scratch Reissue - 11/8/06
Destroyer chronology
We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge (1996) Ideas for Songs (1997)

We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge is the impossibly lo-fi record that introduced Destroyer to the world. The rerecordings of the songs "Breakin' the Law" and "Streets of Fire" are more well known on the The New Pornographers albums Mass Romantic and Twin Cinema respectivly. It was reissued by Scratch Records on October 24, 2006.

The album's title is an allusion to Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, in which Mihail Kutuzov, the commander of the Russian army, promises to build Napoleon and the French army a "golden bridge" out of Russia - that is, to allow the French to continue on their hasty retreat without attempting to do battle, which would only delay the eventual end of the war and bring about needless destruction and loss of life.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Revolution" – 1:15
2. "J. Tailor" – 2:44
3. "Smith" – 1:11
4. "I, As McCarthy" – 2:01
5. "Mending Song" – 1:08
6. "Leave Little Fiddler (Alone)" – 4:06
7. "The Pornographers" – 0:57
8. "War on Jazz" – 3:00
9. "Islands in the Stream" – 1:31
10. "Saddestroyer" – 3:15
11. "Streets of Fire" – 1:50
12. "Rose Fleched This" – 3:27
13. "Breakin' the Law" – 2:38
14. "Whistilin' Dixie (She Shoots)" – 3:08
15. "Riots" – 1:33
16. "Knowing When to Leave (Slang Mix)" – 2:12

[edit] Personnel

• Dan Bejar