Artist: DESTROYER
Title: Destroyer’s Rubies
Formats: 2LP
Catalogue #: SCRATCH # 52
Bar Code: 6 15187 60521 6
Release Date: Oct. 10, 2006

TRACKLISTING

SIDE ONE
Rubies 9:25
Your Blood 4:15
European Oils 4:54

SIDE TWO
Painter in Your Pocket 4:10
Looters' Follies 7:26
3000 Flowers 3:46

SIDE THREE
A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point 6:02
Priest's Knees 3:00
Watercolours into the Ocean 4:46
Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever

SIDE FOUR
LOSCIL'S RUBIES (23:28) I. Corundums 2. Sapphire Dub 3. Carmine (MP3!)

Stop! What was always supposed to be a 77 minute epic instead of a puny 54 minute toss-off finally appears in its rightful double LP format! Throwaway that plastic tinny thing (you’re computer) and embrace these art songs in their complete and perfect and embraceable (two big slabs of wax) form! Yes, that’s right. The songs that you hear on Destroyer’s unprecedently acclaimed Destroyer’s Rubies are in fact only three-quarters of the story. Each of the 10 songs on that album (this is not that album, in that it is much much more) are played to the three-quarter mark and then through the subtlety of fade-outs and pro-tools cut-and-pastery cut off at the knees to create pat endings that would appease the marketing concerns shitting their pants at the idea of another This Night and the ensuing cover stories that would surely go down the toilets of American lifestyle coverage (This Night, for those of you not in the know – most of you – is a “cultish” Destroyer album from 2002 that went well over the 60-minute mark and suffered for it online and off, albeit at mostly Torontonian hands)… Well, what did we do with the extra 23 minutes of music that the band composed, tore into, bled and then sweat out onto a hard drive? We didn’t lovingly paste those songs back together so you could bask in another 3 verses of Sick Priest poetics here, or luxuriate in 12 extra bars of Nic Bragg guitar heroics there. Nope. We could’ve made it easy but we came this far for beauty damnit, not ease. Which is why all that good stuff got thrown into the granular synthetic maw of a machine-beast called Loscil (Kranky Recordings Artist). Having played drums on Destroyer’s Rubies, as well as a bunch of other Destroyer records, under the guise of “Scott Morgan”, he was poised as the only candidate with the expertise and “insider” knowledge it would take to perform the surgery that would make this record proper and complete, and not just a pale shade of its former parts. That’s why throughout the deceptively mangled Loscil’s Rubies you will hear the sighs and whispers of what you think might be songs like Rubies and Painter In Your Pocket haunting your thoughts. That’s the sound of raw files cooing as they traverse into a world where chillin’ always wins out over (folk-) rockin’…Which is what Bejar claims he was trying to say all along… We are told…