| Artist |
Destroyer |
| Album Title: |
Ken (Deluxe Version) |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Indie |
| Format |
Vinyl |
| Released |
10/20/2017 |
| Label |
Merge Records |
| Catalog No |
DOC140DLX |
| Bar Code No |
6 5660-51440-3 0 |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| Ken (Deluxe Version) (Disc 1) |
| A1.
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Sky's Grey (4:05)
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| A2.
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In The Morning (3:16)
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| A3.
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Tinseltown Swimming In Blood (4:46)
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| A4.
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Cover From The Sun (2:13)
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| A5.
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Saw You At The Hospital (3:30)
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| A6.
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A Light Travels Down The Catwalk (3:07)
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| B1.
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Rome (5:01)
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| B2.
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Sometimes In The World (2:34)
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| B3.
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Ivory Coast (4:48)
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| B4.
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Stay Lost (2:21)
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| B5.
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La Regle Du Jeu (4:01)
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| Ken (Deluxe Version) (45 Single) |
| A1.
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A Light Travels Down The Catwalk (Acoustic) (3:08)
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| B1.
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Stay Lost (Acoustic) (1:58)
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| Date Acquired |
08/01/2022 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
HHV |
| Purchase Price |
20.00 |
Web Links |
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Notes |
Notes:
Stickers on wrap mention on the front:
"ken is the 2017 album
from Destroyer
Limited-Edition Yellow Vinyl
Includes bonus 7-inch with solo acoustic
versions of two album tracks
Full Download Included"
Sticker on the back (on the wrap):
"Dead Oceans
[barcode]
DOC140DLX Deluxe Color
Credits:
Design – Robin Mitchell Cranfield
Drums, Synthesizer, Drum Programming, Bass, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Strings [Piano Strings] – Josh Wells
Engineer [Assistant] – Zach Blackstone
Lacquer Cut By – CDaltron (tracks: C, D)
Mastered By – Jason Ward
Photography By [Cover] – Svein Sturlason
Recorded By, Mixed By, Producer – Josh Wells
Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer – Daniel Bejar
Companies etc.:
Record Company – FACTOR
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Merge Records
Copyright © – Merge Records
Copyright © – Destroyer
Recorded At – The Balloon Factory
Mixed At – The Warehouse Studio
Mastered At – Chicago Mastering Service
Designed At – Hundreds & Thousands
Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated – 27964
Pressed By – Zenith Records – ZE5625
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Shrink-Wrap Sticker): 6 5660-51440-3 0
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by Marcy Donelson:
Dan Bejar's 11th Destroyer LP arrives six months after the New Pornographers released their first album without him (April 2017's Whiteout Conditions). Busy preparing his follow-up to 2015's Poison Season, the songwriter instead turned all attention to Ken. The title doesn't refer to a person, but rather the original title of the Suede classic "The Wild Ones." Bejar didn't offer much in the way of explanation for the choice other than that the 1994 song comes from a time "when music first really came at me like a sickness." Sparer than the epic Poison Season but still recorded with members of his band, if in a more piecemeal manner, Ken takes on a synth-heavy post-punk complexion. Acknowledging a worldview that references places like Berlin, Barcelona, Vancouver, and Rome, the album seems to make oblique allusions to the sociopolitical tensions of the period on tracks like the melancholy opener, "Sky's Grey." Anxious, helicopter-like pulses and claves lead into a cinematic sophisti-pop that unleashes midway through the song. Its lyrics include remarks like "Bombs in the city/Plays in the sticks" and "I've been working on the new Oliver Twist." He presents a more Bowie-like rock on "In the Morning" and an ominous, pulsing synth pop on "A Light Travels Down the Catwalk." In true Bejar fashion, "I can't pay for this, all I've got is money" opens "Sometimes in the World." It dispenses cautionary maxims through passages of heavy guitar distortion and sleeker moments of acoustic guitar and synths. Taken together, his typical existential outlook combined with a heavier presence of New Order-like industrial timbres make this a somewhat darker album, but still delightfully Destroyer.
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