City of Daughters

by Destroyer

City of Daughters cover art

Dan Bejar's second full-length firmly establishes his highly idiosyncratic, heavily literary approach to indie folk. Utilizing extremely sparse, acoustic guitar-driven arrangements, the record places all focus on his wildly abstract, poetic lyricism and deeply unconventional, theatrical vocal delivery.

Genres

  • Singer-Songwriter
  • Slacker Rock

Tracklist

  1. Comments on the World as Will
  2. No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby)
  3. Dark Purposes
  4. Emax I
  5. I Want This Cyclops
  6. Loves of a Gnostic
  7. Emax II
  8. State of the Union
  9. School, and the Girls Who Go There
  10. The Space Race
  11. Melanie and Jennifer and Melanie
  12. War on Jazz II or How I Learned to Love the War on Jazz
  13. Emax III
  14. You Were So Cruel
  15. Signs
  16. Rereading the Marble Faun
  17. Son of the Earth