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

gratifying one

It could only be called alchemy

all of us were peers

Formed in 1978

have run parallel on Young

one that takes in synth flourishes

and the sense of home they have in one another

One key is that the tension never really dissipates

there is something curiously late Victorian about the way his mind operates

It’s a fact that remains true on “The Catastrophist

with a smattering of early singles released not long after

as well as the wainscoted old-growth oak joisted parlor of the Lethe Lounge in upper Manhattan