album #9

city of daughters (destroyer)

One of the earlier Destroyer albums, City of Daughters is also the least complex of his albums that I own- touches of synth, but largely simple, direct songs, directed by the acoustic guitar. Among the albums I've liked by artists I like, this is one of the closest to something that I feel like friends of mine could make, in terms of production.

Overall my excitement level isn't tremendous with this record; there's a lot of tracks that don't quite catch me. But it's overall solid and there are a few I've always loved from this record- particularly "Loves of a Gnostic" and "Melanie and Jennifer and Melanie," two songs that have a really wistful drift in the melody. This is a Winter album for me, I was listening to it during either Christmas '06 or '07, thinking, "wow, this is kinda boring relative to the other Destroyer records I've heard." Sure, but still hints of loveliness.