City of Daughters

1998 studio album by Destroyer

City of Daughters

Studio album by

Destroyer

Released| June 1, 1998
Recorded| 1998
Genre| Space rock, indie rock
Length| 38:36
Label| Triple Crown Audio/Endearing
Destroyer chronology
| Ideas for Songs
(1997)  | City of Daughters
(1998)  | Thief
(2000)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Pitchfork| 7.1/10[2]

City of Daughters is the second studio album by Destroyer, released in June 1998.

Pitchfork Media listed City of Daughters as 86th best album of the 1990s.

## Track listing

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All tracks are written by Dan Bejar

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "Comments on the World as Will"| 0:56
2.| "No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby)"| 3:30
3.| "Dark Purposes"| 2:15
4.| "Emax I"| 1:46
5.| "I Want This Cyclops"| 3:13
6.| "Loves of a Gnostic"| 2:38
7.| "Emax II"| 0:57
8.| "State of the Union"| 1:17
9.| "School, and the Girls Who Go There"| 2:51
10.| "The Space Race"| 2:22
11.| "Melanie and Jennifer and Melanie"| 3:59
12.| "War on Jazz II or How I Learned to Love the War on Jazz"| 1:54
13.| "Emax III"| 0:59
14.| "You Were So Cruel"| 3:34
15.| "Signs"| 0:47
16.| "Rereading the Marble Faun"| 3:15
17.| "Son of the Earth"| 2:13
Total length:| 38:36

## Personnel

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* Dan Bejar \- Guitar, Synthesizer, Vocals
* John Collins - Bass, Synthesizer, technology, Ambiance
* Scott Morgan \- Drums, saxophone, clarinet
* David James - technology on "Space Race"[3]

## References

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1. ^ "Allmusic review".
2. ^ "Pitchfork Media review". Pitchfork. 19 April 2010.
3. ^ [1] Archived January 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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* Pitchfork Media #86 album of the 1990s Archived 2016-02-28 at the Wayback Machine

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Destroyer

* Dan Bejar
* John Collins
* David Carswell
* Ted Bois
* Nicolas Bragg
* Joseph Shabason
* JP Carter
* Joshua Wells

* Scott Morgan
* Stephen Wood
* Jason Zumpano
* Chris Frey
* Fisher Rose
* Tim Loewen
* Pete Bourne

Studio albums|

* We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge
* City of Daughters
* Thief
* Streethawk: A Seduction
* This Night
* Your Blues
* Destroyer's Rubies
* Trouble in Dreams
* Kaputt
* Poison Season
* Ken
* Have We Met
* Labyrinthitis

Compilation albums|

* Ideas for Songs

Extended plays|

* Notorious Lightning & Other Works
* Bay of Pigs
* Archer on the Beach
* Five Spanish Songs

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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