Released January 25, 2011 Artist Destroyer Label Merge Records | Recorded 2008–10 Release date 25 January 2011 | |
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Studio JC/DC Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia Length 50:08 (US CD / digital)
70:06 (European CD / vinyl) Producer JC/DC (John Collins and David Carswell) Kaputt
(2011) Five Spanish Songs (EP)
(2013) Genres Jazz, Indie pop, Soft rock, Smooth jazz, Electropop Nominations Polaris Music Prize, Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year Similar Poison Season, Destroyer's Rubies, Your Blues, Trouble in Dreams, Streethawk: A Seduction | ||
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Kaputt is the ninth album by Canadian band Destroyer. It was released on January 25, 2011 by Merge Records and Dead Oceans Records. The album was leaked towards the end of 2010. The vinyl edition of the album features bonus material on side three written largely by frequent Destroyer collaborator Ted Bois. This material is also included in the European CD version of the album credited as 'The Laziest River'.
Contents
The album was named as a shortlisted (one of 10) nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize award.
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Reception
Kaputt received widespread acclaim from music critics upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 38 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". In a five-star review of the album for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis was complimentary of the album's stylistic similarities and lyrical allusions to 1980s popular culture, writing that Kaputt "swerves accusations of archness or kitsch" because of the strength of its songs. Petridis further stated that the album "feels like an open love letter to a vanished pop era: it's unique and warm and beautiful, as love letters are supposed to be." Laura Snapes of NME called it Daniel Bejar's "finest work to date, and excessive, but irresistibly so."
Pitchfork Media placed Kaputt second on their list of the Top 50 Albums of 2011. It also placed on year-end best album lists from Tiny Mix Tapes (number 9), Uncut (number 31), and Mojo (number 41), among others. In August 2014, Kaputt was placed as number 16 on a list published by Pitchfork Media of the The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010–2014).
CD and digital version
The European CD version contains "The Laziest River" as a single track after "Song for America".
Personnel
The following people contributed to Kaputt:
Songs
1Chinatown3:49
2Blue Eyes4:07
3Savage Night at the Opera4:24