Destroyer.

Destroyer is the solo project of Dan Bejar (Swan Lake, The New Pornographers)... and in 1998 he released City of Daughters... one of the greatest records of all time in my opinion... so when I hear about a new Destroyer record... I get excited... really excited... and Dan has never let me down with one of his wordy solo albums... in fact... every time my ipod becomes stuck on that new release for two or three months... in a weird way he's like that teacher who captivated you as a kid... you can't stop trying to dissect his lyrics.
His ninth album Kaputt will be released on January 25 via Merge.
In a press release Bejar listed 22 things we might want to know about the album...

"Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango in Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what's to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… The LinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…"

I'm really glad he cleared everything up.

Here's the tracklist:

01 Chinatown
02 Blue Eyes
03 Savage Night at the Opera
04 Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
05 Poor in Love
06 Kaputt
07 Downtown
08 Song for America
09 Bay of Pigs (Detail)