Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, MIDI, yacht rock, and even underground Spanish independent artists, Bejar was proclaimed “Rock’s Exiled King” by The Fader. His is a body of work that consistently flouts convention in favor of musical leaps of faith, statements of purpose cloaked in subterfuge, and the joyous refrain of an optimist’s heart cloaked in cynicism.
Latest single, “Cataract Time”, is a balletic, dreamy epic that finds Dan Bejar pushed into sensational new territory by longtime collaborator John Collins, who also directed the song’s music video. Destroyer come to Gorilla this summer with a show which will feature the live debut of songs from new record Dan’s Boogie.
“Cataract Time” serves as the centerpiece of Bejar and Collins’ approach to shaping the sound of Dan’s Boogie, revealing new facets to the collaborators’ approach to the sonic and emotional landscape of a Destroyer song. It features some of the heaviest lyrics Bejar has written and is one of Destroyer’s most musically intricate compositions. The deceptively easygoing groove transfigures the fog swirling around Bejar, his melancholy sounding, at times, like hope.
