Album Review: Dan's Boogie by Destroyer

Reckless, euphoric and relentless, this may be the most surprising record of Dan Bejar’s wonderful career so far Dan's Boogie is the 14th studio album by Destroyer (also known as 'the Dan Bejar project') and it follows – in 2022's Labyrinthitis – one of the best of all the previous 13. The album before, Have We Met, was good too, but it served more as a capstone to the previous decade. Much like David Bowie's Lodger (also its creators' 13th album), it toyed with form and structure but ultimately gave listeners a potted history of where the artist had been for the previous decade.

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One reliable aspect of a Destroyer album is that it will mark a change in style from the Canadian band's previous release. But regardless of the genre or genres--glam rock, country, synth-pop, and more--that the group dabbles in, another constant in its music is frontman Daniel Bejar's patented sardonic worldview. Destroyer's 14th studio album, Dan's Boogie, reportedly ended a period of writer's block for the singer-songwriter, and the songs here sound like they were conceived in a jam session.

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