Destroyer - Dan's Boogie (Black Vinyl)

Destroyer - Dan's Boogie (Black Vinyl)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

prickly guitar playing

” which was released in March to acclaim

they're now being married together on to one piece of vinyl

In Upstate New York

Five hour jams would sometimes yield a riff that then became a few bars of a song

manifesting in restrained percussion

visceral proof that the dream is still alive

is dinger's blank canvas

represent "the real me

fumbling hard

it’s finally speaking out loud

we got to work