LP - Destroyer - Dan's Boogie (Pre-Order)

1LP - indie only coke bottle & black swirl - released 03/28

What is a "boogie"? In the common tongue, it's a dance or an occasion to dance. This being a Destroyer album and not the common tongue, the implications of a title like "Dan's Boogie" are at once more alluring and dangerous. "

A boogie is a hustle, a scam that doesn't quite work, the moves we make when we're up against it", explains Dan Bejar. To record "Dan's Boogie", Bejar had to burst through a series of intentional and unintentional barriers to write the songs.

Initially challenging himself to not write songs so the ideas would well up inside of him until they breached containment, the months following the completion of 2022's "LABYRINTHITIS" turned into one year then two, at which point Bejar gave himself a New Year's resolution to play the piano every day for an hour.

That lasted about four days, but the songs Bejar credits as coming from that resolution are all-timer Destroyer songs across the vast spectrum Bejar and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema, each brimming with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tortured spy.

Where previous Destroyer albums were locked in combat with the world, "Dan's Boogie" dances with it, its nine reveries coalescing into one long hustle. Dan Bejar's eye may be on the exits, but he's not leaving anytime soon.