'Tis the season... to post your Top 10 Albums List!!!

[Davey]

Destroyer - Kaput Never listened to this band very much, and this is their 9th record. It's really, really good, and they're from Canada for cryin' out loud.

Destroyer - Kaputt
LOVE IT! This is one of my favorite releases of the past year, and one of the better and most unique ones of the past handfull of years. Dan Bejar takes all of his scorn and bitter observations of the American Way (and, yes, that includes ALL of N. America with his Canadian lineage and his semi-removed/askance perspectives on our USA-ism's in general), and channels them through the musical canon of the past 20 years, with special attention paid to the late eighties/early nineties. Horns are brilliantly deployed in late night jams that stretch almost all the way back to Steely Dan-era cool. Just the right amount of synth. and eighties pseudo-funk liven the tracks that, in the end, in true Destroyer style, are most informed by the atmospheric moments of mid-70's Bowie. And that ain't a bad thing at all.

Just heard this one for the first time yesterday, and it is good. Lots of variety, and got some of that Steely Dan/Bryan Ferry/David Bowie soul feel running through it as jonny mentions, and the lyrics have a quirkiness I like. Is this the start of a new yacht-rock revival? Wish it sounded a little better and wasn't mastered so loud, more like the music that inspired it, but could say the same about all new pop music (including pretty much everything on my list, with the exception of Josh Pearson). Overall, nice listen, though can't say that I'm a big fan of the sound and production. The drum machine and bass is just too loud throughout for me. Could just be cause I'm listening to it on phones, though looking at the audio editor now I see he does often have the beats set to full level.