Dan Bejard with his Destroyer releases a new album

The “project” Destroyer announced a new album entitled “Dan’s Boogie”.

The next LP by Dan Bejar (he who hides behind the name “Destroyer”) will be released on March 28, via Merge and follows “Labyrinthitis”, the latest work of 2022.

Today Bejar shared the single “Bologna”, featuring vocals by Simone Schmidt of the Fiver.

The song is accompanied by a music video directed by David Galloway which features mundane snapshots of everyday life, among other things the hardware store, cityscapes, frozen peas, and a cat.

“I haven’t written many songs like ‘Bologna,’” Bejar said in press material. “I struggled to sing the first and third verses, the most important parts of the song. They needed gravity and grit. The threat of disappearing had to be real. So I called Simone.”

Reading the text there is no reference to the Italian city.

Bejar’s characteristic sense of wordplay is also evident in the new album’s song titles, which include “The Ignoramus of Love,” “Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World” and “Cataract Light.”

These last two songs were written after Bejar made a resolution to practice the piano every day for an hour, a resolution that he says only lasted four days.

Musically, “Dan’s Boogie” shifts, in the group’s style, from piano ballads to imaginative pop-tinged concoctions to moody, cinematic songs. As for the album’s title, Bejar says, “A boogie is a scam. A scam that doesn’t quite work. The moves we make when we’re cornered. I think about spy work, double agents, sleeping with a keep an eye open and keep an eye on the exits. I also think about the small victories and defeats on the road and about improvisation.”

“Dan’s Boogie” is the fourteenth album by Destroyer (the 15th if we also consider the audio cassette released in 1997) to which are added four EPs. The project, a very dynamic band that revolves around the figure of Dan Bejar, was born in 1995 by the Canadian frontman.

His recording debut took place in 1996 with “We’ll Build Them at Golden Bridge” and develops around albums each time inspired by different styles. We move from pop to 70s rock, also crossing paths with folk to get to ambient.

In 2000 Bejar gave life to another project, that of New Pornographersa group also made up of different musicians including the American of Ukrainian origins Neko Homes.