Destroyer's Rubies

by Destroyer

Destroyer's Rubies cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 February 2006
  • Label: Merge
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 53:45
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 11 ratings

Artists on this release: Nicolas Bragg, Daniel Bejar, Ted Bois, David Carswell, John Collins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Dan Bejar delivers his most focused and acclaimed album with 'Destroyer's Rubies'. Backed by a full band, the songs are intricate, verbose, and classic-rock influenced. It is a brilliant display of Bejar's idiosyncratic songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: literary, wordplay, sophisticated, saxophone, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Rubies
  2. Your Blood
  3. European Oils
  4. Painter in Your Pocket
  5. Looters' Follies
  6. 3000 Flowers
  7. A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point
  8. Priest's Knees
  9. Watercolours into the Ocean
  10. Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever

Credits

  • Dan Bejar - Member
  • John Collins - producer, mixed by, recorded by
  • Joshua Wells - Member
  • David Carswell - producer, mixed by, recorded by
  • Nicolas Bragg - lead guitar
  • Ted Bois - piano, organ [wurlitzer], organ
  • Simone Schmidt - Member
  • JP Carter - Member
  • Daniel Bejar - vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, tambourine
  • Henry Lee - Member
  • Peggy Leo - Member
  • Tyson Naylor - Member
  • Dylan Palmer - Member
  • Joseph Shabason - Member
  • Josh Wells - Member
  • Rebecca Whitling - Member
  • Jesse Zubot - Member
  • Tim Loewen - bass
  • Scott Morgan - drums, baritone saxophone
  • Jamie Sitar - mastered by
  • Fisher Rose - vibraphone, trumpet
  • Destroyer - Producer

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