Friday, April 22nd BLAZING 45′s presented by FUZZ and DUBLAB: A one-off event in celebration of Holloway’s birthday. Twenty dj’s spin 15 minute sets of their favorite 45′s. Included are: B+, DAM FUNK, SHINEHEAD, PB WOLF, FROSTY, NOBODY, RHETTMATIC, DUB CLUB TOM, TURQUOISE WISDOM, NANNY CANTALOUPE, DANNY HOLLOWAY, DESTROYER, MONALISA, EXPO, BYZE, BELSON, SCOTT CRAIG, [...]

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There’s no doubt that fans attached to the jangly cyclothemia that characterized a lot of Destroyer’s past efforts, as well as Bejar’s idiosyncratic New Pornographers and Swan Lake songs, will feel alienated by the new sound. But those who jump in, as the Troubadour audience ecstatically did, will find themselves inside one of these movies, instead of in front of the screen, smirking knowingly as Kathleen Turner gets seductively swallowed by an effervescent taco of fog. There’s a reverence here that echoes, more than anything, Lynch’s obsession with Laura Palmer.

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The Echoplex tends to play up its murkiness well—generally, it’s too dark to tell what color your drink is, or if your date is male, or human. Tonight’s show was so dark that Dan Bejar, a.k.a. Destroyer, appeared to be candlelit. It fit. I can’t say for certain what the primary objective was in seating the mostly crazy-eyed and adoring audience in rows right up against the stage. The result was a wonderful, docile sort of intimacy, which was exponentially multiplied by Bejar’s solo performance—he played acoustic versions of songs that on record are often as densely orchestral as this sort of (indie rock? hooky Bowie-esque Spanish guitar balladry? “European Blues,” as he calls it?) music gets.

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El Perro Del Mar “Jubilee” [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Luke McGarry

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