Dan Bejar’s prolific Destroyer venture returns March 28 with its 14th album, Dan’s Boogie (Merge), which is led by the one “Bologna.” Bejar stars in its accompanying David Galloway–directed video, which additionally options Fiver’s Simone Schmidt.
“I haven’t written many songs like ‘Bologna,’” says Bejar. “I struggled singing the primary and third verses — crucial elements of the music. They wanted gravity and grit. The specter of disappearing wanted to be actual. So I referred to as Simone.”
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Bejar’s signature sense of wordplay is obvious even on the brand new album’s music titles, which embody “The Ignoramus of Love,” “Hydroplaning Off the Fringe of the World” and “Cataract Gentle.” The latter two songs had been written after Bejar made a New Yr’s decision to follow the piano on a regular basis for an hour — a conceit that he says solely lasted about 4 days.
Musically, Dan’s Boogie bounces from piano balladry to fanciful, pop-tinged concoctions to moody songs with a cinematic aptitude. As for the album’s title, Bejar gives, “A boogie is a hustle. A rip-off that doesn’t fairly work. The strikes we make once we’re up in opposition to it. I consider spy work, double brokers, sleeping with one eye open, a watch on the exits. However I additionally consider petty street-level victories and losses and improv.”
Destroyer will likely be on tour all through February supporting Father John Misty on a run of dates starting Feb. 13 in Atlanta. He will even carry out on the Primavera Sound competition in Barcelona in June.
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