Blog: Stereogum

"Epic" gets thrown a lot, but when hearing something like Destroyer's "Bay Of Pigs," I feel the need to go back in time and choose my words differently. The almost 14-minute "ambient disco" track takes up the entire Side A of Dan Bejar's forthcoming limited-edition Bay Of Pigs EP. Ostensibly it tackles the 1961 invasion of Cuba of the same name, but like most of Bejar's work, there are dozens of threads (and amazing lines delivered with tossed-off cool) running through it. For instance, "Magnolia's a girl, her heart's made of wood / as apocalypses go that's pretty [...]