Destroyer – Have We Met Vinyl Record

Description

Destroyers Dan Bejar initially conceived ofHave We Metas a Y2K album. He was already active during the era but not heard overhead in a cafe or salon, which is perhaps what the idea of the Y2K sound evokes nearly two decades later. Bejar assigned frequent producer and bandmate John Collins the role of layering synth and rhythm sections over demos with the period-specific Bjrk, Air, and Massive Attack in mind, but he soon realized the sonic template was too removed from Destroyers own, and the idea of a concept was silly anyway. So he abandoned it and gave Collins the most timeless instruction of all: Make it sound cool.

Atmosphere and loose approximations of a place or feeling are what weve come to expect from any new Destroyer recordcertainly not an easily defined and stridently adhered to theme or concept.Have We Metmanages to meet somewhere between those disparate Y2K reference points and Destroyers own area of expertise, gliding deftly into territory that marries the old strident Destroyer with the new, aged