Destroyer will act 23 in Valencia(Jerusalem) where he will present a brand new album, “Dan's Boogie”, than the 28 of marzo has seen the light in the seal Merge Records (distributed in Spain byPopstock!). Ah, and will have Eleanor Friedberger opening act.
Since he made his recording debut back in 1995, Destroyer (artistic alias of the Canadian Dan Bejar) has been leaving a creative mark (also during his time The New Pornographers y Swan Lake), creating a curriculum that admits that he has even been called the David Bowie of the indie rock. For years talking about Destroyer was to make it from one of those well kept secrets, in his case within the field of alternative rock, but with "Broken" (2011; the ninth of his fourteen albums) the tables turned. This work led him to occupy major headlines in the specialized music press and very prominent positions in the lists of the best of the year..
Four years later he reinforced that pull with “Poison Season”, an epic exploration of New York life where he used arrangements that ranged from jazz to rock and from there to chamber music. No problems, Of course, in someone who is able to go from Guided By Voices a Steely Dann without continuity solution. Or from electronic to orchestral, but always with extraordinary coherence. Since then, four more albums –“ken” (2017), “Have We Met” (2020), "Labyrinthitis" (2022) and the recent and object of his next tour “Dan's Boogie” (2025)- with which he continues to increase his prestige. obvious examples, These excerpts from reviews of his most recent work: “With a style that goes from rococo to ungainly, from the ghostly to the bustling, 'Dan's Boogie' is as captivating as his big hit 2011, 'Broken'; “Its infallible quality is another hallmark of Destroyer” (The Guardian), “‘Dan’s Boogie’, Destroyer's fourteenth album, performed by a band of seven musicians with decades of experience, sounds great from the start, a tribute more than anything to having done this work for so long” (The Quietus); “'Dan's Boogie' rewards those who have faithfully followed a discography that has evolved from a refined indie-rock to a synth-pop with jazz influences and vibrant new wave rhythms. The album fuses all these components with impressive results” (Paste Magazine).
Ah, and it is worth remembering that at the end of 2013 Destroyer released the EP “Five Spanish Songs”, where he did versions of Mr.. Chinarro, of whom he has declared himself a big fan…
