| We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Destroyer |
| Cover: | We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge Original.jpg |
| Released: | July 16, 1996 October 24, 2006 (Reissue) |
| Recorded: | February and June 1995 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 35:55 |
| Label: | Tinker, Scratch Records |
| Next Title: | Ideas for Songs |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge is the debut album by Destroyer. Originally released on Tinker Recordings in 1996, it was reissued by Scratch Records on October 24, 2006.[1]
The album's title is an allusion to Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, in which Mikhail Kutuzov, the commander of the Russian army, promises to build Napoleon and the French army a "golden bridge" out of Russia - that is, to allow the French to continue on their hasty retreat without attempting to do battle, which would only bring about needless destruction and loss of life.