Destroyer - Dan's Boogie

Released 28th March 2025

What is a boogie? In the common tongue, its a dance or an occasion to dance. This being a Destroyer album and not the common tongue, the implications of a title like Dans Boogie are at once more alluring and dangerous. A boogie is a hustle, a scam that doesnt quite work, the moves we make when were up against it, explains Dan Bejar. I think of spy work, double agents, sleeping with one eye open, an eye on the exits. But I also think of petty street-level victories and losses and improv.

To record Dans Boogie, Bejar had to burst through a series of intentional and unintentional barriers to write the songs. Initially challenging himself to not write songs so the ideas would well up inside of him until they breached containment, the months following the completion of LABYRINTHITIS turned into one year then two, at which point Bejar gave himself a New Years resolution to play the piano every day for