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Album Review: Destroyer - Poison Season

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"Genius? Goat? Our money's on a bit of both."

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Look out! Here come the bongos.

Many felt that Dan Bejar was pushing his luck dabbling with soft-jazz synths and muted trumpets on his last full-length. If anything, Poison Season walks on thinner ice as Bejar's dreamy quasi-poetical musings wander over even lusher arrangements. He's a cunning chameleon though, as songs like Times Square fit some of the most achingly beautiful music he's ever recorded against catastrophically pretentious lyrics in a way that somehow seems to make perfect sense. Genius? Goat? Our money's on a bit of both.