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Trouble In Dreams
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Dan Bejar, the ex-New Pornographer, releases his ninth album.
| LABEL: | Merge |
| RELEASE DATE: | 18 March 2008 |
| DISCS: | 1 disc |
| GENRE(S): | Rock, Indie |
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The average user rating for this album is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
jyotirmaya D. gave it a7:
I like this album a little better than "Rubies" because it doesn't use the same chord refrains throughout the whole of the album as "rubies" did. It was almost like all of the songs had the same music. Now with "Trouble..." we get a more pin-pointed variegated sound, but we don't get any of the lush arrangements which made "Rubies" so damn good to listen to. I am going to have to go to my itunes and create a mix of the two albums and compile one excellent album to my liking. And I am happy that I can do that !!!
Sean gave it a9:
The overall metacritic score has it right. Not as great as the previous Destroyer record, but better than most of the music out there now.
Jeremy gave it a7:
It's okay. Almost completely hit and miss the whole way through. "Foam Hands" is easily the best track. And you're high if you think this is better than "Destroyer's Rubies" (I'm looking at you, Hartford Courant).
Gene B. gave it a9:
H K said it best - some of these critics seem to take Bejar's lyrical playfulness as a personal insult to their intelligence. The music is beautiful and complex.
Matt A. gave it a6:
Have to agree with the cokemachineglow counterpoint (although not quite to that extent). Rubies was Bejar's best album just because of the instrumentation. This album reverts back to, like the aforementioned review said, what he has always done, and it is just isn't that interesting or listenable. And yes, his "la la la la" choruses make me want to cut my ears off.
Fusco L. gave it a9:
Now that their eighth record came out, Fusco finally crosses the path of Dan Bejar and his Destroyer, that recently released «Trouble In Dreams». If there are records that grab us from the first chord, leading us through a dream from which we don`t want to wake up, this would not be one of them. It prefers to act like a small cold, a restless and invisible parasite, a viral syndrome that, from the first opportunity to show some action, it runs at high speed through the blood freeway, affecting all and any brain activity. I would say that «Trouble in Dreams» is 2000`s «Ziggy Stardust», a mixture of Bowie`s lust, Bauhaus saturnian delirium and Current 93`s weird way of telling stories. A record that touches the epic, to which I offer four and a half shooting rockets. A big thank you to my friend Uóli for showing me this little pearl.
Craig M. gave it a9:
Maybe the best album by Destroyer, and an early contender for album of the year. The melodies flow better than in the past and the instrumentation is fantastic. Highlights include, My Favourite Year, Foam Hands, Shooting Rockets and Libby's First Sunrise, although the entire album is filled with melodic alt-rock.
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