Released February 21, 2006 Artist Destroyer Label Merge Records | Length 53:46 Release date 21 February 2006 Genre Indie rock | |
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Destroyer's Rubies
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Destroyer your blood
Destroyer's Rubies is the seventh studio album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer, released on February 21, 2006 on Merge Records.
Contents
Release
The album peaked at #24 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers music chart, and made it to #30 on the magazine's Top Independent Albums chart.
Reception
Destroyer's Rubies received widespread acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 30 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Matt LeMay of Pitchfork Media gave the album a very favorable review, stating: "The album is structurally complex, thematically dense, and labyrinthine in its self-referentiality. Dan Bejar's vocals are, like many of his indie contemporaries, yelpy and dramatic, and many of his lyrics seem preordained to serve as mp3 blog headers. In other words, the qualities that once made Destroyer albums so "difficult" make Destroyer's Rubies a perfect record for this critical moment."
Pitchfork Media placed Destroyer's Rubies at number 158 on their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s.
Track listing
All tracks written by Dan Bejar.
Personnel
Songs
1Rubies9:25
2Your Blood4:16
3European Oils4:55