Destroyer all, Chords, Tabs, Bass Tabs, Ukulele Chords tabs including kaputt, tinseltown swimming in blood Come too weak and your f-bomb lands unconvincing; too heavy and you sound more angry than pointed. Album closer “La Regle du Jeu” is ripped straight from a New York nightclub, after too many hours of dancing to disco and one too many bumps of coke. This moment highlights what makes ken, and all of Destroyer’s work, for that matter, so interesting, engaging, and wonderful. 2011’s Kaputt became the moment we realized what Bejar knew all along: The dude had—and still has—no interest in making the same record twice. It plays like a Bruce Springsteen record if Springsteen’s characters were novelistic sketches instead of working class Americans. "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" – Destroyer 12. C hord U search Archer on the Beach - Destroyer; 2. Stream the new single below and watch the creative music video which features a slideshow of Destroyer and his experiences over the years. Will Schube is a filmmaker and freelance writer based in Austin, TX. Cover From The Sun - 6.5 5. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform. When he's not making movies or writing about music, he's training to become the first NHL player with no professional hockey experience whatsoever. “Tinseltown Swimming In Blood” (2017) In 2015, Bejar was caught in a minor media kerfuffle when he remarked in a different Pitchfork interview that Taylor Swift gives him “the willies.” Fuck no!/ I’m just starting to get the good parts,” Bejar deadpans during the introduction of the album’s first track, “Sky’s Grey.” There’s a biting sarcasm to these words, but Bejar always takes what he says seriously. It's on cuts like these where Bejar conforms tastefully to sonic beefiness, instead of demanding to be the primary stage presence. The saxophone shines here, which is nice, because it is regrettably absent on most of the other tracks. The Flatliners - Drown In Blood (Official Lyric Video) - Duration: 3:21. Here are the 50 best TV theme songs as determined by Paste writers and staffers. All of these moments from album to album, seemingly disparate, actually offer clues as to where Bejar is headed next. Give standouts “Tinseltown Swimming In Blood” and “Ivory Coast” a spin below. The saxophone shines here, which is nice, because it is regrettably absent on most of the other tracks. To do so any other way, while delivering these scathing portraits of excess and vanity, would come across as excessive and vain as well. 03 Tinseltown Swimming in Blood 04 Cover From the Sun 05 Saw You at the Hospital 06 A Light Travels Down the Catwalk 07 Rome 08 Sometimes In the World 09 … From Mad Men to Breaking Bad, check out the best TV theme songs here. “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood” is the first throwback to the 80’s, with a sharp drumline and, bless, tambourine to provide a snappy syncopation. Chords: Dm7, G, F, C. Chords for Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker. You can find "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" on the Burn Slow Vibes playlist via Spotify. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood - Duration: 5:07. 3 Tinseltown Swimming In Blood 4 Cover From The Sun 5 Saw You At The Hospital 6 A Light Travels Down The Catwalk 7 Rome 8 Sometimes In The World 9 Ivory Coast 10 Stay Lost ... Now on Fat Wreck Chords, whose reputation for discovering great new punk bands goes unsurpassed. Revealed: Street Cat Named Bob died after being hit by a car, says ex-heroin addict owner of ginger tom whose exploits were turned into a best-selling book - but mystery surrounds who's to blame “Your silhouette says I’m not there yet/ But soon I’m gonna be/ Free at last,” he sings. Find the cheapest and quickest ways to get from Cinemark at Richmond Centre to The Spotlight Playhouse. This week’s album is ken, the new album from Destroyer. Grief Point - Destroyer “Saw You At The Hospital” is an ode to Bejar’s early days—the Destroyer’s Rubies style of writing that played heavily with acoustic guitar and story building lyricism. With many modern processors the reverse is also true. Editors’ Notes Since Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance founded Merge Records in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1989, it has gone from scrappy DIY outlet for their own records to cred-shaping indie stalwart to singular, shining example of how a labor of love can evolve and thrive over the course of a generation. Stay Lost - 5 11. Swearing in a song is a unique art form. These trends continue into Tinseltown Swimming In Blood, another first class cut featuring a trumpeted melody and pummelling, echo-laden drums. It’s eerie, a little haunted, full of joy, and unlike anything else on ken. Chordify is your #1 platform for chords. “Give up acting? (25) "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" - Destroyer, from Ken (24) "Silver" - Waxahatchee, from Out in the Storm ... Could do with less of the beard-y yell-sing, but the tricky song structures and beautiful guitar chords and leads are welcome to my ears any day. His new album, Ken is out October 20th and will mark his first album since 2015's Poison Season. Tinseltown Swimming in Blood Lyrics 2017: Certain Things You Ought to Know Lyrics 2004: Holly Going Lightly Lyrics 2016: News Ways of Living Lyrics 2004: An Actor's Revenge Lyrics 2004: Kinda Dark Lyrics 2020: It Just Doesn't Happen Lyrics 2020: From Oakland to Warsaw Lyrics 2004: The Music Lovers Lyrics 2004: Downtown Lyrics 2011: Cue Synthesizer Lyrics 2020 “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood” is the first throwback to the 80’s, with a sharp drumline and, bless, tambourine to provide a snappy syncopation. The genre-breaking Vancouver band come back out of silence with an announcement of a hometown show at the Commodore Ballroom (buy tickets here) February 9th and a new single titled, "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood." His musical landscape is so shifty, so uninterested in a unified sound, that each song stands alone in its own universe. "Sleeping and Falling" – Jonti 16. Upload song.
‎Introducing the updated Cinemark Theatres app. Known for their unique indie rock, Destroyer release a chilled-out track led by simple bass chords garnering a sound similar to that of The War On Drugs. But those fields are deceptive, for the path through them has led many into darkness. Imagine this rainy L.A, full of dead flowers and beautiful women. La Regle Du Jeu - 4.5 Breakdown Production / Beats: 15/30 Enjoyability / Catchiness: 13/20 Hooks / Verses: 12/20 Vocals / Flow: 3/10 Artistry: 3/10 Sonically, ken touches on a few familiar reference points: the soft-focus horns and new wave shimmy of "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" recall … We have the special yellow vinyl indie edition for sale, at a great price, in the 3hive Co-op Shop. Four years after Kaputt, Bejar came through with Poison Season (released in 2015), an album that flew under the radar but became the strongest amalgamation of the shift in Destroyer’s sound. Then there's the Progressive Pop of 'Tinseltown Swimming In Blood,' a track that plods steadily with intersecting synths and a gorgeous bridge-to-chorus combo. On initial listen, ken, is an oddball misfit, just like each of its predecessors. Being able to land the perfect ‘Fuck no!’ doesn’t hurt, either. The mix of festive tambourine jangle and power chords is not going to illicit much brooding—these are sounds that suit a drive with the windows down. In recent years, he’s turned his records into breeding grounds for disconnected ideas and thematic dissonance. The Greatest Hits (Fat Wreck Chords) The Garden - The Life and Times of a Paper Clip (Burger) Randy Newman - Dark Matter (Nonesuch) And here's the soundtrack. A little Blade Runner, a little X Files or Twin Peaks. ken, his latest LP, is perhaps his most diverse collection of songs yet; shifting from moment to moment, capturing the ecstasy of the unexpected at every turn. Rome - 4 8. "Little Dark Age" – MGMT 14. Volume 1. "North" – Yotto 17. With his latest LP, Dan Bejar remains one of our greatest curiosities, one of the world’s finest songwriters; tethering together loose concoctions with romantic ballast and tongue-in-cheek poetry. “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood” sounds like a lost cut from the Drive soundtrack, with those bouncy synths trapping Bejar’s voice in a suffocating frame before slowly expanding—big, sweeping chords revealing a greater world; an escape from Tinseltown, perhaps, just two songs after an adamant refusal to go: “Fuck no!” “I was a dreamer/ Watch me leave,” he sings. “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood” is as big a “hit” as Bejar has had in many years. Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. Light synth melodies prepare a pleasant contrast from the darkly self-referential lyrics. It integrates a mesmerizing synth bass line, synth strings, an out-of-sync beat, and smooth vocals with just a touch of trumpet (or synthesized trumpet). The only constant from album to album, song to song, is that there is no constant. Saw You At The Hospital - 2.5 6. Incredibly, the mixture of blood and semen on the floor formed into an image of Satan, who mouthed obscenities at us before vanishing again! Alternative Press: 3.5 stars out of 5-- "The EP's title track, recorded with Hecker, is the clear favorite, as it uses washes of processed crowd noise and piano chords as a haunting match of Bejar's distinctive vocals..." Tracks of Disc 1; 1. The song swells with abstract synths and twitching percussion before slowly morphing into an anthemic ballad, with unabashedly huge drum fills and a sky-reaching guitar solo. The back-to-back sister songs “In the Morning” and “Tinseltown Swimming in Blood” are upbeat and work well in their neighboring sequence, the latter employing a Peter Hook-ish bassline and a trumpet that help warm the cold keyboards and programmed percussion. ∙ In the 2000s, Bejar released two albums with indie supergroup Swan Lake, which features Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer and Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug. Your email address will not be published. He’s unlike any other songwriter, yet his unpredictability has led to a certain familiarity; a comfort in the unknown. 11. Currently you have JavaScript disabled. Gardiner’s vocals are similarly growled, reminiscent of Jim James of My Morning Jacket or … "How It Feels" – Ages and Ages 13. The through line that courses through his work is shakier than ever. It’s a fine line, and very few walk it finer than Dan Bejar, known more prominently as Destroyer. 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