LABYRINTHITIS

DESTROYER Build Songs On New Album LABYRINTHITIS

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25 March 2022

Band: DESTROYER
Who: Indie popsters from Vancouver, Canada
fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar
Active: Since 1995

New album: LABYRINTHITIS – 13th LP
Out: 25 March 2022 – order info here

Pitchfork: “Dan Bejar’s marvelously inscrutable songwriting reaches beyond meaning. On his most live-sounding record in years, he finds clarity when language recedes and the music takes over… Bejar has always been a cryptic songwriter, but on Labyrinthitis he seems intent on piling on associations until they reach beyond meaning itself… Listening to Labyrinthitis feels like how it might feel to be a Thomas Pynchon character: journeying circuitously toward a goal you can’t quite apprehend, accosted by signs and symbols that may be of world-historical importance if they don’t turn out to be nonsense, haunted and comforted by the intuition that all this could easily be a big joke.” Full review here. Score: 8.5/10.

Turn Up The Volume: Destroyer‘s mastermind Dan Bejar is a songwriting architect.
He builds his songs brick by brick. He likes to wander in his labyrinth in his mind, to
lose himself in his own mysterious thoughts but returns on time to finish his sonic construction. Fascinating pop humdingers.

Singles/clips: Tintoretto, It’s For You / June

– TINTORETTO, IT’S FOR YOU –

– JUNE –

Full album…


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DAN BEJAR And DESTROYER Want To Eat, Drink And Dance – Hear Their New Piece From The Upcoming LP

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New striking strokes

Band: DESTROYER
Who: Indie popsters from Vancouver
fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar
Active: Since 1995 / 13 studio LPs so far

New album: LABYRINTHITIS
Out: 25 March 2022 – order info here

Press info:“Destroyer’s new full-length brims with mystic and
intoxicating terrain, the threads of Dan Bejar’s notes woven through
by a trove of allusions at once eerily familiar and intimately perplexing.
The record circuitously draws ever inward, each turn offering giddy
surprise, anxious esoterica, and thumping emotionality at equal odds.”

New track: EAT THE WINE, DRINK THE BREAD
The second taster after upbeat lead single
Tintoretto, It’s For You.

Dan Bejar wants to drink, eat and dance…

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(Image on top: cover of their previous, 2020 album ‘Have We Met’)

Vancouver’s Indie Band DESTROYER Canned New Album – Hear First Single ‘TINTORETTO, IT’S FOR YOU’

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12 January 2022

Band: DESTROYER
Who: Indie popsters from Vancouver fronted
by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar
Active: Since 1995 / 13 studio LPs including new one

New album: LABYRINTHITIS
Out: 25 March 2022 – order info here

Press info:“Destroyer’s new full-length brims with mystic and intoxicating terrain,
the threads of Dan Bejar’s notes woven through by a trove of allusions at once eerily familiar and intimately perplexing. The record circuitously draws ever inward, each turn offering giddy surprise, anxious esoterica, and thumping emotionality at equal odds.”

Lead single: TINTORETTO, IT’S FOR YOU

Bejar: “I had an idea of writing a couple lines on the idea of ‘mystery’ and ‘going
nowhere,’ as they are two of my favorite themes. Also wanted to write on the romance
of terror.”

I’m not really sure why this new piece is for medieval Venetian painter Tintoretto.
Anyway, the track is a wayward, yet groovy tune with lively piano play, some horns
in the end, and Bejar intimidating voice rolling over the vibey beats. Weird as ever.

Press play and listen/watch…

Artwork new album

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(Image on top: cover of their previous, 2020 album ‘Have We Met’)