DESTROYER ken Vinyl LP 2017

Sky's Grey
In the Morning
Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Cover from the Sun
Saw You at the Hospital
A Light Travels Down the Catwalk
Rome
Sometimes in the World
Ivory Coast
Stay Lost
La Regle Du Jeu

Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar offers the following: “Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for The Wild Ones (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was Ken. I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It’s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe The Wild Ones speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think ‘ken’ also means ‘to know.’”