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All right, now,
get this. Some months ago Misra sends me Destroyer’s dreadfully titled
Streethawk: A Seduction. Because I like the guy from Misra, I violate
my own policy and give the one-sheet
the once-over. I learn that, one, Destroyer is New Pornographer Dan Bejar’s
band, and they’ve made a couple of records before this one, and that
everybody loves ‘em. I look through the press kit and it’s true:
a lot of people who’ve written about Destroyer say they’re great.
And it just so happens that I’m feeling introspective or something
on this particular day and so I check myself, and I say: “Never you
mind that somebody else found out about it first,” and I give it a
spin, and it’s completely excellent. I reviewed it on a website
I was writing for and ranted about it to anybody who entered the house,
and it became one of those CDs that never leaves the changer; when one disc
ended, there was always at least a one-in-five chance that the next thing
you’d hear was the gloriously fey, overwhelmingly affected sound of
Daniel Bejar inclining his face toward a Popper Stopper in a studio somewhere
in Canada and singing: “Hey girl! Come and take a whirl in my ma....chine!”
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