Destroyer Kaputt

• Chinatown
• Blue Eyes
• Savage Night at the Opera
• Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
• Poor in Love
• Kaputt
• Downtown
• Song for America
• Bay of Pigs (Detail)

For the follow-up to Dan "Destroyer" Bejar's 2008 album, Trouble In Dreams, the arch, adventurous art-pop singer/songwriter has come up with a batch of tunes named after a book he freely admits he has not read (by Italian author Curzio Malaparte). To further obfuscate the subject of Kaputt's inspirations, Bejar offered up a half-joking list of disparate reference points including everything from "'90s Gil Evans" (Evans died in the '80s) to "the back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours." In other words, it's pretty much up to the listeners to create their own context for Kaputt.

Abstract by Jim Allen