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Dan Bejar Biography

Daniel Bejar (/ˈbeɪhɑːr/; born October 4, 1972) is an independent singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bejar has gained widespread popularity through his musical collaborations with Vancouver indie-rock band The New Pornographers, but has released far more material as the frontman of his band Destroyer. He is renowned for his poetic and often cryptic lyrics as well as his unorthodox vocals. In 2006, he joined with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade as part of another indie supergroup, Swan Lake. He has also collaborated with his girlfriend Sydney Hermant as the duo Hello, Blue Roses, whose debut album was released in 2008.

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I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Expression, Like, Name, Names, Rocks, Way

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

Instrumentation, Rocks, Storm, Sucker, Thinking

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

Down, Sat, Song, Work Ethic, Writing

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

Important, Like, Like You, Quit, Quitting, Safely

Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

Generally, Melodious, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Roll, Song

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

Execution, Guess, Guitar, Treacherous, Usually, Very Good

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

Feelings, Like, People, Playing, Thinking

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

Audience, Definitions, Exactly, Mean, People

It's actually really stereotypical that someone should be 40 and mellow out, but I think it's more about trying to conjure up a different intensity in my head, one where I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

Actually, Mellow, Minute, Song, Thinking, Trying

I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when. . . So, yeah, for the first, Mass Romantic, I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.

Band, Bars, Conversation, Couple, Heavily, Kind

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

Foil, Ideas, Make, Real, Thinking, Wispy

I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

Thinking, Reality, Rocks, Approach, Consistent, Making

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

Acid, Appreciate, Argument, Drunk, Mystic, Professional

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

Care, Music, Wrestling, Years

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

Bad, Mean, Start, Starting, Words

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

Enters, Happen, Romance, Song, Songs, Splits

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

Cause, Causes, Musician, Musicians, Write, Writing

I don't really know what's going on with the Pornographers - everyone's kind of doing their own stuff. I mean, they play shows here or there.

Mean, Play, Shows, Stuff

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.

Lasts, Mysterious, Say Anything, Share, Stage, Want

Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.

Band, Fire, Logic, Lyrics, Thinking, Wolf

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