There are bands that, once you find your way into the music, feel like rabbit holes to tumble down. Artistry, technical proficiency, lyrical and/or sonic innovation, happenstance, and talent that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although Bejar has set a solid framework for his music, he adds subtle touches to each of his records that distinguish it from its ...

The last we heard from Dan Bejar, it was early 2020 and he was touring behind a spooky and prescient Destroyer album, Have We Met. A sinister work rife with apocalyptic warnings about the future, the ...

Welcome to Beandon’s Musical Corner, the only place on campus for in-depth, exhaustive reviews of the latest releases in rock, jazz, experimental… and pretty much everything else. Brandon Rupp (also ...

Destroyer has been consistent with releasing new albums since the ’90s, and their latest was 2020’s Have We Met. Now, they’re getting ready to quickly follow that up with Labyrinthitis, their newly ...

The Canadian rockers weave dreamy electronica through an album that buries frequent moments of brilliance beneath a bewildering collage of ideas Labyrinthitis – an inner ear infection that causes ...

For the 10th and final instalment of this series, we spoke with Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar, whose latest album, Labyrinthitis, marks his return to the Polaris Music Prize short list since his first ...

Labyrinthitis often fires off into surprising directions -- ones that were surprising to the people who made it, too. Bejar and Collins began work on these songs during lockdown in 2020, trading ideas ...

This image is from the official album artwork for ‘Labyrinthitis,’ owned by Merge Records. The album’s opening track, “It’s in Your Heart Now,” immediately establishes the album’s musical texture with ...

The last time we heard an album from Destroyer it was January 2020, when whispers of coronavirus were just making their way to the West. That record was another collaboration with John Collins, who ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bejar’s surreal lyricism has been a constant amid the stylistic twists and turns. Narrative logic is harder to ...