Here's Mike Powell on Destroyer's Kaputt:
"Poor in Love," for example, is anthemic in the same way Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure" is, the sound of skyscrapers and progress, of '80s video footage of Tokyo. But the song ends just as it finally starts to build, and concludes with the line, "Why's everybody sing along when we built this city on ruins?," which not only feels bad to sing along to, but is effectively an attack on the entire impulse to sing along. It's like getting a toy for Christmas and immediately being told it is very dangerous.
Kaputt is so, so good (and the video for "Kaputt" is, too).
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