Destroyer - Have We MetHave We Met, as Dan Bejar puts it, came together in such a crazy way all equal parts ecstasy and terror. Initially conceived (but quickly ditched) as a Y2K album, Bejar was without a clear concept in mind. So he let it all rip while brainstorming at home. Culled from years worth of saved writing, set aside for projects beyond music and recorded at his kitchen table, Have We Met harkens back to Kaputt era Dan stringing together lyrics off hand while

And just like with the undead… they always come back

It‰۪s also my attempt to document a certain sense of loss that felt both intensely personal and like part of a larger collective experience many were going through at once

Finally you depravedåÊOh Sees freaks have something to take home with you when you loseåÊyour shoes and your girlfriend at the show

Includes six songs originally issued on UNi and eight unreleased tracks

Moore released another solo album

as the warped choir sings: ‘All the while you felt so alone/but all the while there were bugs in the phone and you were not alone

Hayden Menzies and Chris Slorach

giving the viewer intimate audience to actual album takes

A beautiful piece of Japanese smooth fusion-jazz with elements of traditional Greek music and Balearic grooves

be it personal or metaphorical and there are times

but we don’t and we hope you don’t either

aka Jamal Moss