Compared to the last couple of years, 2022 has been a bonanza of incredible rock record releases. It seems like every week there are two or three projects just begging for proper time and attention. Many artists who were kept off the road due to the pandemic and were inspired to write during their forced, […]
Destroyer’s latest album, Labyrinthitis, started out as a dance record. It would have been “just like Donna Summer’s greatest hits,” frontman Dan Bejar explained in the album’s press materials. The Vancouver-based indie-rock outfit hasn’t exactly shied away from grooves before, but Bejar often suffuses those grooves with his own sardonic twist. It creates a set […]
Gearing up for their forthcoming album, Destroyer released the new single “Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread.” The track follows the previously released “Tintoretto, It’s For You.” Both songs are off Labyrinthitis, which is slated for release on March 25. Frequent Destroyer collaborator John Collins lent a hand with the tracks on the album, which was […]
Destroyer, the experimental rock project by Dan Bejar, released the first song from its forthcoming album, Labyrinthitis, out on March 25 via Merge. “Tintoretto, It’s for You” is propelled by a chilling piano-and-drum arrangement that rises and falls around Bejar’s eerie incantations (“Do you remember the mythic beast?”). The album is available for preorder here. […]