Notorious Lightning & Other Works

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Notorious Lightning and Other Works
Notorious Lightning & Other Works (Front Cover).png
EP by
ReleasedJanuary 25, 2005
Genre Indie rock
Length27:27
Label Merge
Destroyer chronology
Your Blues
(2004)
Notorious Lightning and Other Works
(2005)
Destroyer's Rubies
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [1]

Notorious Lightning and Other Works is an EP by Destroyer, released on January 25, 2005, on Merge Records. After shocking many fans by supporting the synth-driven album Your Blues with the avant-guitar band Frog Eyes, Dan Bejar decided to put to tape some of the very different versions of songs from Your Blues.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dan Bejar.

No.TitleLength
1."Notorious Lightning"9:51
2."New Ways of Living"3:21
3."The Music Lovers"4:41
4."An Actor's Revenge"2:55
5."Don't Become the Thing You Hated"3:07
6."Your Blues"3:32
Total length:27:27

Personnel

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