The Airportline: Observations

Destroyer - Bay of Pigs
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Is it the quest for productivity that destroys creativity? The computer screen that blurs the emotional mind? Does the cheer notion of an office numb what should be a freely racing mind? Who is it that answers all those emails, write and publish the reports, and write those functional and straight sentences that you flood other peoples in boxes with?

I’m listening to Destroyers’ Bay of Pigs, a over 12-minutes long song that Stereogum labels as ‘ambient disco’. What sticks out not the stories or cleverly phrased ideas, it is the whole concept of creating this kind of music, so long and overbearing, so grand and epic that it feels like its been made in another dimension with no connection to this reality. Something that definitely could not be produced in an office environment. It takes too much time, it starts slow, with hazy waves of soft electronic whispers, and when Dan Bejar starts to sing he starts out explaining that,
‘Listen, I've been drinking, as our house lies in ruin. I don't know what I'm doing: alone, in the dark, at the park or at the pier, watching ships disappear in the rain.’

It is a song about letting your mind wander, letting it break free of reason. Bejar knows how to do this (and admittedly have had trouble writing songs not pushing and breaking the 10 minute mark throughout his career) and it does not feel like a surprise when he sings about a girl named Magnolia. The song shares the same feeling of understated longing as the movie with the same name, same kind of detachment from society and its productive wheels that keep on spinning. Illogical ramblings, or profound ideas? It matters little when Destroyer portrays a drifting motion to a world we never seem to get to. Will we ever get there?