Destroyer de nouveau à flot

Un premier titre, Sky’s Grey est en écoute qui n’augure pas d’un disque en demi teinte. Romain Gary écrivait dans Les Cerfs-volants, « le blanc et le noir il y en a marre, le gris il n’y a que ça d’humain. » Dan Bejar semble être d’accord et explique la signification du titre de son douzième disque en 20 ans, 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’.”

Destroyer – Sky’s Grey (Lyric Video)