Your Blues

Not to be confused with Yer Blues.
Your Blues
Studio album by Destroyer
Released 2004
Genre Indie rock
Label Merge
Destroyer chronology

This Night
(2002)		 Your Blues
(2004)		 Notorious Lightning & Other Works
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (8.6/10)[2]

Your Blues is the sixth studio album by Destroyer, released in 2004.

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

Critics variously described the album 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".[3]

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

Personnel

References and notes

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  3. ↑ Metacritic Destroyer: Your Blues Accessed 19 September 2006

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