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Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
by Destroyer
From the album:
ken
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Posted by LetsLoop on September 13, 2017, 1:53 pm Tinseltown Swimming In Blood is the second single from Canadian indie-rock band @Destroyer's much-anticipated eleventh album, ken, which is out October 20th and follows up 2015's stunning Poison Season. It will be joined on the new album by the recently released lead single, Sky’s Grey.The video for Tinseltown Swimming In Blood is an adaptation of the 1962 French film La Jetée, composed entirely of still photographs and directed by KC (aka Karen Zolo). Here's what she had to say about the video:
"It’s not just an homage to the great cine-poet, it’s also about the medium of film, about still photography. It would have been a billion times easier and less stressful to shoot it digitally, but it was worth it."
Here's what Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar had to say about his new album and his reason for calling in ken:
"Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for The Wild Ones (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It’s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about @Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe “The Wild Ones” speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think “ken” also means “to know”."
ken was produced by @Black Mountain's Josh Wells, who has been Destroyer's drummer since 2012.
If you're new to Destroyer and would like to hear more, we highly recommend listening to Kaputt, Chinatown, Times Square, Dream Lover, Girl in a Sling, Savage Night At the Opera, European Oils and Painter In Your Pocket.
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