Labyrinthitis
by Destroyer

Destroyer is a real musical chameleon on 'Labyrinthitis' and I found myself enjoying the complex arrangements and varying instrumentation of the tracks just as much as his storytelling.

From Arthurknight 05/20/2022 00:14 | #285534 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Destroyer is now way too glossy, the guy is just adding effects to everything. The problem is that reverb, analog echo, etc. in Labyrinthitis are just poorly incorporated; it's too easy to hear the specific effect. The sound isn't ethereal, it's synthetic – in other words the effects are poorly textured, too highly mixed, and maybe even added digitally to recordings in post – but it's clear nobody was going for that. It's more the kind of thing you'd expect from people who go for a kind of clinical perfection in their production, such as Jacob Collier. That said, there's fun songs on here, and even the ones that have the aforementioned production issue, as instrumental layers are added, become quite fun actually - June is a good example. Destroyer still has it, he just needs to get back to basics I think, or be a little whacky with song structure again if he's going to keep this lowkey funk thing going.

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From flamingyesdept 03/29/2022 23:14 | #283593 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

His best since Poison Season

From ExTeaSea 03/26/2022 20:26 | #283442 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Pretty sure this is the most I've enjoyed Destroyer. Loved the singles and the album has a great flow. Has like a similarity to early Brian Eno which includes Another Green World and like a hint of Talking Heads so like that Eno/Byrne album or something? I dunno it's super cool and exciting music so yeah.. :-P