The Destroyer- City Of Daughters

Vinyl LP pressing. In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters, Thief and Streethawk: A Seductionholds an important place; for not only does it document Dan Bejar's evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also contains a massive percentage of superlative Destroyer "classics." 1998's City of Daughters features some of the first steps out of the demo-tapey experimentation of earlier recordings, with songs like "Comments On The World As Will" refining the sound of that stripped-down earlier work, and the seminal "No Cease Fires" offering us the first taste of just what a full-band Destroyer might conjure.

Track List

1. Comments on the World As Will
2. No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love Baby)
3. Dark Purposes
4. Emax I
5. I Want This Cyclops
6. Loves of a Gnostic
7. Emax II
8. State of the Union
9. School and the Girls Who Go There
10. The Space Race
11. Melanie and Jennifer and Melanie
12. War on Jazz II or How I Learned to Love the War on Jazz
13. Emax III
14. You Were So Cruel
15. Signs
16. Rereading the Marble Faun
17. Son of the Earth