destroyer's rubies

while i don't have the time to do a proper review of destroyer's latest on merge, let me just say that it's easily going to end up as one of the year's finest. i've been a sucker for dan bejar for almost 10 years now, but "rubies" marks his finest effort to date (which is really saying something). with all the fuss made over his side-band, the new pornographers (who are snoozeworthy) and it's lead ginger (the equally boring a.c. newman), those same people should literally be shitting their pants over this record.

"why can't you see that a life in arts and a life of mimicry is the same thing?"

'zactly.