First heard about Destroyer from OceanRain/Stone Junkie about a year ago over dinner somewhere. About 6 months later I finally got around to listening to Trouble in Dreams. At first I was not wholly impressed, feeling that the album lacked overall connectivity within itself as well as between the music and the listener. Too caffeinated  and jumbled like an the early Talking Heads album 1977. Luckily, I did not give up on the abum as I so often mistakenly do and the album infectiously grew on me. His lyrics are a throwback to vintage David Berman and Stephen Malkmus, being quite fractured at times but the more one listens, the clear the path unfolds on their cleverness and brilliance.

Net / Net I hate the Echoplex but am willing to sacrifice my integrity for a great performer. $13 without Ticketweb fees which are typically $4.

Got three tickets:

1. Capt AKAK
2. OceanRain
3. Steven

I wish I could share the mp3 but I am at work. Enjoy. This reads like a Bloodclot poem (well actually only the part where it talks about diamonds).

Here she comes dressed in white
Her mouth is filled with flames
Her skin is black, her fingers trace
The diamonds in her veins

Here she comes down from the sun
To wash this country clean
Comes down for us, down from the dust
To murder what remains

Here she comes now dressed in red
To heal this ruined race
I know somewhere, where there’s a god
He’s lying at her feet

And we’ll walk freely through the mountains and the trees
And we’ll breathe deep again where the air is pure and clean
And we will drink freely from the milk of our revenge
And we will break down the prison gates that keep you in

So please show no pity as we come up from the ground
And please remember as you kill us and cut us down
That time will not wash clean the bloody face of history
And someone will breathe here again and they will hate you for what you leave