Destroyer - Dan's Boogie

out 28 march, here's the single "bologna"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CsV3b7woM

and the track list & times:

1 The Same Thing as Nothing at All 5:00
2 Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World 4:50
3 The Ignoramus of Love 3:34
4 Dan's Boogie 3:48
5 Bologna 4:24
6 I Materialize 1:19
7 Sun Meet Snow 3:37
8 Cataract Time 8:00
9 Travel Light 2:25

"bologna" is pretty cool, it's like almost his version of a trip hop track? labyrinthitis was really good so i hope this one's just as strong

it's like the seedy underside of kaputt

8 minute runtime saying good things about Cataract Time

i love the bit at 2:10 when it sounds like the reverb-laden trumpet's coming in but the next note reveals it to be just guitar

Don't often have cause to say this, but I love Bologna!

love this

No wonder I like this...he's not singing on it...

He does sing in it?

But yeah this sounds very promising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01T7GTOqlI

quite a different vibe, not as good as "bologna"

But pretty good still !

Much better than bologna

Ooh, this is the best possible title for a Destroyer album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV4fWZIlprI

lovely and a totally different vibe yet again

sounds great

intro riff a nod to... coldplay?

i don't hear it?

sounded like "the scientist" to my ears

Looking forward to this, haven't been into the last few releases but really liking what I'm hearing this go around.

Warming up for this by going back to listen to (almost) everything starting with Streethawk. I haven't revisited it or This Night in maybe...five years? Streethawk is better than I remember and I loved it back in the day. And This Night popped right back up to one of my faves of the century.

These singles have been spectacular. Hard to imagine the rest of the album being as good, but re-listening reminds me to give it a deep dive and multiple listens, which these days doesn't happen nearly as often as it did 20+ years ago.

How many guys named Jon / John that live in Chicago do we have on ilx ffs

I think just me, if we're counting Jo(h)ns who actually live in Chicago

Why do they all feel the need to say where they live

why are you such a dick about it

Cataract Time is absolutely lovely in a way I didn’t at all expect

And it just keeps getting better

another good album, a bit all over the place though

airy vibe to this one

"Hey Mister, you wanna buy some diamond rings?"
Is what my neighbors say to me almost every day

Enjoying my first listen to this right now. I guess in a sense it's just more of the same as what we've gotten the last couple of albums, but I find this very enjoyable and I can't think of many bands who have managed to maintain such a high a level of quality over such an extended time period.

I'm in awe of this record, I like it more than the last few

I like the second half much more than the first.

Like the Destroyer albums released since 2017, he's made one I'll listen to often the week of release, after which I'll forget it exists.

he should do a greatest hits. i'd listen to that.

absolutely!

'cataract time' from this one should be on it, drop dead gorgeous song

lots of weird drum shit going on with this album lol

big al stewart vibes on the final track

i googled al stewart which led to a facebook post about a concert in omaha on 3/25 and then a comment from someone about ringing him up in whole foods. i hope this photo posts.

https://scontent.fslc3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/474858766_9722452264445514_4433597799142771218_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=bd9a62&_nc_ohc=5VPBin1mDP4Q7kNvgGxlSzg&_nc_oc=AdmnIIIsOb9Kl2XUNE0fSmlPIKnXPF7bLLtj4q_FRrz2XXGhLdgneLbG1Ejn-MvC260&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-1.fna&_nc_gid=WlsbiDbGfaOAQ62PcQEnbA&oh=00_AYFp3cq_sRmvKrxtsn4YgyKtjXlEUzmy7qHmQZyPAzMzyg&oe=67ECC6A0

it's truly the year of the cat

Love this. "Cataract Time" is incredible

it's not as good as labyrinthitis (which is one of his best) but also doesn't fall off completely in the last two tracks like that did. it's probably closest in feel to poison season, surprisingly?

there's a lot of ideas here that i wish he'd explored more - the almost trip-hop vibes of "bologna", the grand synthetic soul orchestration of "the same thing as nothing at all" and "dan's boogie"

"sun meet snow" is pretty crazy

Gave this a listen today, first half in the car and the second half in the shower. Pretty good, looking forward to getting to know it.

just gonna assume you didn't buy this on vinyl

Me listening to this new album while running errands:

- there’s too much reverb on this
- the jokes on this one are really, really funny
- kinda tuneless but man, these jokes
- I wonder if Destroyer records should be considered “comedy albums”
- maybe “novelty albums” would be more appropriate
- but maybe all albums are “novelty albums”
- if this is a really good novelty album, and all albums are novelty albums, then this is a really good album

(^ 0P, I think you just wrote libretto for next Destroyer EP)

There’s too much fucking reverb on this mix

They tell me it can be fixed

In mastering but I know that it’s

A lie, a lie, and I lie

Here, on this pleather divan

This cold coffee is the only thing that keeps me hanging on

To you

lmao

i feel like this is a bit more of a novelty album than usual for him

I mean it's called Dan's boogie!

instantly my favorite destroyer album since kaputt

i don't really find it to be all over the place, feels like a v unified sonic palette he's playing with

great drums

I'm with ivy except it's my favorite since trouble in dreams

It's quite unified and has two tracks I'd keep (the opener and "Cataract Time") and I'll consign the rest to research.

I love the whole album, though I would add "Hydroplaning" to the list of Alfred's otherwise correct highlights.

oh yeah, that too

There’s too much fucking reverb on this mix

They tell me it can be fixed

In mastering but I know that it’s

A lie, a lie, and I lie

Here, on this pleather divan

This cold coffee is the only thing that keeps me hanging on

To you

― the yam that I am with my yam (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6:47 PM (two days ago)

magnificent

it's probably my least favourite since kaputt except for ken, i don't love it anywhere near as much as labyrinthitis. none of it's at all bad, it's just all merely pretty good

"least favorite since kaputt

I guess I am still capable of being surprised by wildly different takes on artists I like.

something like this, from best to worst, with ken being the only one i don't really care for. maybe swap poison season and have we met

kaputt
labyrinthitis
poison season
have we met
dan's boogie
ken

why are we acting like Kaputt was his debut album? I feel like Kaputt capped off an amazing run and everything since, including Dan's Boogie, has been merely pretty good. Thief, Rubies and Streethawk are great records

Another Destroyer album cycle and subsequent armchair career retrospectives and I am once again screaming “Justice for City Of Daughters”. If it can be considered a debut album (it was a debut ‘studio album’) then it’s an all-time best

kaputt was a big shift and i don't really return to his previous work much except your blues (which i adore) & occasionally rubies. there's good moments across all those albums but they don't have the same appeal overall

goon tie otm

I think of early Destroyer as its own terrain -- I was on board as of Streethawk and for me the one-two punch of Thief and Streethawk remains very dear to my heart, I think he got even better but the splash of those is for me still very potent

Xp your sleeping on streethawk! I remember reading a rym review like a decade ago which argued for the first 5 seconds of that album being the greatest but of recorded music in the 21st century and I'm still sympathetic to that idea.

I wish he sung like he does in Bologna all the time. That song is catnip for me, got all my favourite elements. One night high register piano reverb piano riff. Bongos. Walking bass line. Its a really fun song to sing to your partner too. In another world where it became a smash hit (Melody maker, NME, all sounds like a dream to me), it would be a cracker karaoke hit. Slaps to sing

Fuck lotta bad spell correct in that one sorry

Kaputt is pretty singular and a gorgeous, mellow record, but doesn't have anything like "Painter in Your Pocket", "The Sublimation Hour", "Foam Hands".

I dunno, I'm no big Roxy fan but seem to recall he was p clear Kaputt was his Avalon, and maybe there's a similar before/after logic there

Good songs on all post Kaputt-albums but as with all reunion Suede albums I can't truly enjoy them because of the mix/master, it's too compressed and busy to me - even something airy and spacious like "Cataract Time" isn't nice on the ears when you dial it up

I honestly need to spend some more time with the pre-Streethawk stuff. I've never really thought about ranking his stuff, but if I absolutely had to it would probably look like this today:

Destroyer's Rubies (first album that got me into Bejar)
Streethawk
Kaputt
Your Blues
Trouble in Dreams
Have We Met
This Night
Labyrinthitis
Poison Season
ken

I think I'm the only weirdo in the world who ranks Kaputt and Poison Season as the twin jewels of the catalog. Vastly different, but both perfect.

I like Kaputt and Rubies the best, but Poison Season is probably my third after those

Heh, that list makes it look like I don't like Poison Season or ken, I do both! He's got a really hard catalog to rank and something has to end up on the bottom.

Tried ranking his albums but this is all I could come up with:

top tier:
Streethawk
Your Blues
Rubies
Kaputt
Poison Season

second tier:
This Night
Trouble in Dreams
ken
Have We Met
Labyrinthitis
Dans's Boogie (provisional placing)

I also have not listened to pre-Streethawk stuff that much. I really should, but back when I tried (a long time ago now), it always just made me want to listen to Streethawk or This Night.

What appeals to me personally about City Of Daughters (even more so than Thief) is that it has all the wit and charm one would hope for but it’s still directed more toward “conventional song structures” rather than being fully immersed in the artist’s id.

Another example (for me) is The National’s “Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers”— everything that would define the band is there and in place, but there’s something appealing (to me) about material that was created before the rivers were running deep and certainly conventions started to emerge

Kind of an “early Al Pacino” vibe iykwim

Some cool piano parts on this.

My favorite since Kaputt too. I liked the singles, but they had me expecting just another pretty good Destroyer album. The songs that really make the album for me are "Same Thing as Nothing at All," the title track, and especially "Sun Meet Snow."