Cue weekly mantra: As we’ve pointed out over the past few weeks (rather broken record-like) one of the happy coincidences of being The Record Store Day Blog For 2011 is that we’re afforded the opportunity to underscore one of our main themes—namely that vinyl is a contemporary medium which is thriving and more vital than it has been in some time—DJ’s, purists, and collectors notwithstanding.
So, to that end, we’re spending the next eleven weeks straight putting records into the hands of TVD readers as we count down to April 16, 2011—Record Store Day. We’ll have a giveaway for you each and every Tuesday as well as sporadic surprises throughout the forthcoming weeks.
For Week #8 we’ve got one of my more favorite releases so far of 2011, Destroyer’s “Kaputt” which is certainly garnering some off-kilter plaudits such as this gem from Tiny Mix Tapes, “Destroyer’s new album Kaputt may be one of the most indefensible albums of all time. But it’s also a masterpiece.”
I mean, c’mon.
They continue, “The album has a dark sense of urgency about it, but each track is delivered in an easy, drifting style, as if nothing is at stake and everything can be left behind. Bejar might be, after all, just indulging in his tastes, and he reportedly recorded the lyrics while lying on a couch.”
Ready to hit that aforementioned couch with Dan? Here’s how you do it:
The rules can’t be any easier to enter our Eleven Weeks of Record Store Day Vinyl Giveaways: simply leave us a comment in the comments section to the contest letting us know why you deserve to win that particular LP. Be creative, funny, incisive—whatever it takes to grab our attention.
Winners of our Tuesday giveaways will be notified upon the launch of the next giveaway and must have a mailing address within the US and Canada.
