"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Sunday, November 12, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
Destroyer's Rubies by Destroyer

Destroyer: Destroyer's Rubies
Merge 2/21/2006

Available on Emusic

I have a soft spot in my heart for such unabashedly weird artists as Detroyer's Dan Bejar. He is refreshingly unconstrained by the rules of traditional indie rock song writing, letting his ideas roam free without adorning them with artsy bullshit. The results are completely sincere yet schizoid epics along the lines of David Bowie's "The Cygnet Committee". Just when you think you know where the song is going, it unexpectedly darts off in a random direction. Bejar somehow integrates the song and its nearly a dozen independent parts into a seamless, cinematic whole.

Posted by Jonathan at 9:49 PM

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