Your Blues

Your Blues is the sixth studio album by Destroyer, released on March 8, 2004[1] by Merge Records, Trifekta Records, Scratch Records, Talitres Records, and Acuarela Discos.[2]

Your Blues
Studio album by Destroyer
Released	March 8, 2004
Genre	Indie rock, European blues
Length	46:11
Label	Merge Trifekta Scratch Talitres Acuarela Discos
Producer	John Collins David Carswell Dan Bejar
Destroyer chronology
This Night (2002) Your Blues (2004) Notorious Lightning & Other Works (EP) (2005)

It is a notable departure from the full-band format of Destroyer's previous few albums, largely featuring MIDI-simulated orchestration as its backing music.

The album was reissued in 2014 by Merge Records.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The A.V. Club	C+[5]
Pitchfork	8.6/10[6]
PopMatters	[7]
Spin	B+[8]
Uncut	[9]

Your Blues received positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 14 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[10]

Matt LeMay of Pitchfork Media gave the album a very favorable review stating, "Like Bejar's 2002 release This Night, Your Blues constitutes a fundamental challenge to deeply ingrained conventions of sincerity and emotional honesty. The record's conceptual brilliance lies largely in Bejar's ability to craft deeply moving passages out of ostensibly artificial and contrived elements, subtly suggesting that all music, if not all human expression, is in effect some sort of artifice. Bejar's critical engagement with codified aesthetic techniques certainly renders Your Blues a less immediately "accessible" record, and can at first come off as kitschy or detached. But the album's unique and defiant expression makes this the most holistically accomplished album Bejar has released to date."[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dan Bejar.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Notorious Lightning"	5:57
2.	"It's Gonna Take an Airplane"	3:41
3.	"An Actor's Revenge"	2:57
4.	"The Music Lovers"	4:22
5.	"From Oakland to Warsaw"	3:11
6.	"Your Blues"	2:57
7.	"New Ways of Living"	4:23
8.	"Don't Become the Thing You Hated"	2:13
9.	"Mad Foxes"	4:45
10.	"The Fox and the Hound"	3:23
11.	"What Road"	3:57
12.	"Certain Things You Ought to Know"	4:25
Total length:		46:11

Personnel

• Dan Bejar
• John Collins
• David Carswell

References and notes

1. https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/d1289caa-ebff-3f5d-8dfd-b04699750c5b
2. https://www.discogs.com/master/view/157896
3. "Reviews for Your Blues by Destroyer". Metacritic. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
4. Luerssen, John D. (January 2, 2015). "Your Blues – Destroyer". AllMusic. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
5. "Destroyer – Your Blues".
6. LeMay, Matt (March 14, 2004). "Destroyer: Your Blues". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
7. Korenkiewicz, Jason. Destroyer: Your Blues. PopMatters. 18 March 2004. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
8. "SPIN Breakdown". Spin. April 2004. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
9. "Destroyer: Your Blues". Uncut. January 2005. p. 124.
10. "Your Blues – Destroyer". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

External links

• Streaming version of the track "It's Gonna Take an Airplane"
• Streaming version of the track "The Music Lovers"