Destroyer Kick Off North American Tour With “Stay Lost” Video
Photo by Ted Bois
Canadian indie rockers Destroyer have just released a new music video for their single “Stay Lost.” The video’s release comes alongside the start of Destroyer’s two-month North American tour, beginning tonight, Jan. 10, in Portland, Ore.
Lead by singer and frontman Dan Bejar, Destroyer was born in 1995 as a home-recording project that expanded to bring its independent abstract sounds to the masses. Bejar calls the group’s new video “a user’s guide to the world.”
The “Stay Lost” video, submerged in the song’s ambient electronica over flanging guitar effects, follows the narrative of a man who, though surrounded by family and friends, remains forever alone. The man builds a new world for himself, in between interlocking maps of tubing and psychedelic visuals of what appears to be the inside of the protagonist’s mind. In the end, its revealed that what the main character was building was nothing more than what can only be described as visual gibberish, complete with irrational doorways and mounds of insulation hanging off the side.
Oddly enough, the video takes us through the painstaking process of the character’s journey, carefully cutting wood, caulking tile and obsessing over a structure which, at the end, is revealed to make no sense.
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, director of the video, had this to say:
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