I must admit to only picking up the Destroyer stuff recently - I did get Destroyer's Rubies for a few pounds a few years ago as it turned up in a list of stuff liked by an American lady who friended me on Facebook after liking some reviews/mistaking me for the new Simon Reynolds (Spoon's Gimme Fiction was another top recommendation). Apparently Your Blues was influenced by Nite Flights, which if I knew that earlier I'd have bought ages ago. Got a copy of Trouble in Dreams for £3 on amazon, which I assume is the LP some reviewer described as "Astral Weeks by Pavement"...it's on the way. I love his stuff in the New Pornographers too, particularly on Mass Romantic...
Loving the first two Suede reissues, have the third one but not in that much of a pop mood these days...Sadly I only saw them twice, the first time was around the time of The Drowners at the Windsor Old Trout (supported by the Auteurs) and the second a bit after Coming Up came out. Both really good...but for some reason never saw them again...was tempted by the stuff in London earlier this year. Can't they come and play to the nation? I was hoping for a "victory lap" tour in the Autumn...
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