Destroyer: Ken
Andy Gill, The Independent, 19 October 2015
ACCORDING TO Dan Bejar, the title to Destroyer's 12th, and possibly best, album came to him upon learning that it was the original name for the ballad 'The Wild Ones'. This epiphanic moment ("I was physically struck by this information") led to its appropriation for a set of songs seething with dark knowledge, as Bejar peeks behind the curtain of appearances in search of underlying motivations.
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