Ken
Merge
2017
Rating: 8 stick built condominiums out of 10
At this point a new Destroyer album is much like their live shows - if you're already familiar with what they do and how they sound, anything new is pretty much more of the same thing. But they’re so damn good at that same thing, you keep coming back for more, or at least I always do. I actively dislike the song “Cover from the Sun”, which might be the only thing I can say that's different about "Ken" versus their other records...I also couldn't tell you why I feel that way.
Honestly, I'm at a loss as to what to say here...it's their thirteenth record (!?!?!), it sounds more or less the same as the last five or so ("Your Blues" was the last one that was decidedly different), and it was one of my favorites of 2017 because I'm old and set in my ways and why fuck with a good thing?
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