Destroyer Announces Dan’s Boogie, Shares “Bologna”
Dan Bejar's 15th album will arrive on March 28 via Merge Records.
Photo by David GallowayDan Bejar’s beloved project, Destroyer, is making its return on March 28 with a new record, Dan’s Boogie. It’s Bejar’s first album since LABYRINTHITIS, which we named the 34th-best record of 2022 and crowned its lead single “June” as the 10th-best song of that year. Dan’s Boogie continues his partnership with Merge Records, and the LP is being called a “breakthrough album” for Bejar that will feature “songs across the vast spectrum he and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smoldering 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.”
The announcement is accompanied by a new song, “Bologna,” which features guest vocals from Fiver’s Simone Schmidt. “I haven’t written many songs like ‘Bologna,’” Bejar said in a press statement. “I struggled singing the first and third verses, the most important parts of the song. They needed gravity and grit. The threat of disappearing needed to be real. So I called Simone.” “Bologna” is textbook Destroyer, full of odd syllables, twinkling keyboards, stray guitars and a melt of different-pitched voices tangling within each other. Suffice to say: It’s a splendid introduction to Bejar’s next chapter.
Watch the music video for “Bologna” and check out the Dan’s Boogie artwork, tracklist and Destroyer’s upcoming tour dates with Father John Misty below.
Dan’s Boogie Artwork:
Dan’s Boogie Tracklist:
The Same Thing as Nothing at All
Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World
The Ignoramus of Love
Dan’s Boogie
Bologna (ft. Fiver)
I Materialize
Sun Meet Snow
Cataract Light
Travel Light
Destroyer’s Upcoming Tour Dates:
Feb 13 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern*
Feb 14 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium*
Feb 15 Louisville, KY – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall*
Feb 17 Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live!*
Feb 18 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore*
Feb 19 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE*
Feb 22 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway*
Feb 23 Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center*
Feb 25 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre*
Feb 26 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre*
Feb 28 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore*
Mar 01 Washington, DC – The Anthem*
Jun 05 Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound 2025
*w/ Father John Misty