Destroyer's Rubies

Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever

Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, MIDI, yacht rock, and even underground Spanish independent artists, Bejar was proclaimed “Rock’s Exiled King” by The Fader. His is a body of work that consistently flouts convention in favor of musical leaps of faith, statements of purpose cloaked in subterfuge, and the joyous refrain of an optimist’s heart cloaked in cynicism.

Here is what an AI that was fed context from a web search has to say about me  —  — — Wire Crimes, led by Adam Nicholas Copeland, is a music project from New Jersey, with alternative sound like Nickelback.

Their music is on SoundCloud and Bandcamp, with a website as grand as Creed’s album art. Their style is a mix of punk (like Sum 41), electronic (like Brokencyde), hardcore (like Black Veil Brides), and new wave (like Panic! At The Disco).

Song titles include “TEMPLE”, “COINTELPRO”, and “SYNTHETIC LAWA”, with lyrics as deep as Limp Bizkit. Adam Copeland is active on social media, tweeting like Falling in Reverse.

Little is known about Adam Cofland’s life, but he’s passionate about music, like Puddle of Mudd.

Oleh Zaychenko chose the name Bring Prudence because he wanted to be right next to Bring Crosby and Bright Eyes on his clickwheel iPod. It wasn’t until many years later that he realized Bing didn’t actually have an “r” in his name.

After moving to the Chicago suburbs from Ukraine in 2003, Zaychenko started writing poems and recording songs into his cell phone to cope with isolation. By 16, he saved up enough money from his Dunkin’ Donuts job to buy Jasmine — his only acoustic guitar to date. 

Having played in several high-school and college bands (Bad Bad Hats, Pursued By a Bear, Win Win), Oleh decided to move to Brooklyn and focus on Bring Prudence. In 2010, he released his first EP, Engineers, pioneering the “electronnui” sound, which he defines as “electronic music but sadder.” His melodic EP Aliens followed suit in 2013, earning praise from The Current, BIRP, Indie Rock Cafe, Recent Music Heroes, Echolalia Radio, and The Bomarr Blog. 

Zaychenko’s next release was profoundly impacted by Sparrow Night — a weekly mixed-media workshop of local Brooklyn musicians, artists, and poets held in the kitchen of his Crown Heights apartment. Zaychenko would write and bring in a new song every Sunday. The resulting album, Red Horses, explored themes of seduction, alienation, and loss of innocence over sparse acoustic arrangements, supplemented only by the lush bass and piano of Jared van Fleet (Beirut, Voxtrot). 

Described as “smooth, striking vocals running loosely over his simple acoustic guitar” (Impose Magazine) and “a body of work that can be dissected into witticism-thoughts” (Elevatrtrax), Red Horses (2016) gained wider exposure for Bring Prudence on the New York singer-songwriter stage, leading to performances at venues like the Bowery Electric, Pianos, Cake Shop, Rockwood Music Hall, and the Way Station.

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