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Poison Season opens with Vancouver native Dan Bejar swathed in Hunky Dory strings. Hes a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked charactersJesus, Jacob, Judy, Jacksimultaneously Biblical and musical theatre. This bittersweet, Times Square-set fanfare is reprised twice more on the recordfirst as swaying, saxophone-stoked street-rock and then finally as a curtain-closing reverie. The first and last songs are actually one song tracked live with quintet, explains their author. I even sang with the band. That song always swung between super austere and super mid-70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock. In the end, I decided I wanted both. Couldnt really figure out a way to sequence the orchestral version within the record, so I decided to carve it up as a book-ending motif, with the rock version squarely in the middle.

- Disc 1 -
1Times Square, Poison Season I Destroyer 2:33
2Dream Lover Destroyer 3:49
3Forces from Above Destroyer 5:52

- Disc 2 -
1Hell Is An Open Door Destroyer 3:18
2The River Destroyer 3:36
3Girl in a Sling Destroyer 3:05
4Times Square Destroyer 4:11

- Disc 3 -
1Archer on the Beach Destroyer 4:56
2Midnight Meet the Rain Destroyer 3:25
3Solace's Bride Destroyer 3:44

- Disc 4 -
1Bangkok Destroyer 5:14
2Sun in the Sky Destroyer 5:34
3Times Square, Poison Season II Destroyer 3:03