Destroyer Returns With Poison Season, Shares “Dream Lover”
Dan Bejar’s last Destroyer album was 2011′s excellent Kaputt. In 2013, he shared his Five Spanish Songs EP. On August 28, he returns with the double LP Poison Season (via Merge in the U.S. and Dead Oceans in the UK). That’s the artwork and album cut “Dream Lover” above.
The same day, Bejar will release a two-song 12″ companion piece to the album. It features a remix of “Forces From Above” and an orchestral version of “Times Square, Poison Season”. The latter song opens the album and is reprised twice after that. Bejar explains in a statement:
The first and last songs are actually one song tracked live with quintet. I even sang with the band. That song always swung between super austere and super mid-’70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock. In the end, I decided I wanted both. Couldn’t really figure out a way to sequence the orchestral version within the record, so I decided to carve it up as a book-ending motif, with the rock version squarely in the middle.
Below the album’s tracklist, find Destroyer’s forthcoming world tour dates.
Poison Season:
01 Times Square, Poison Season
02 Dream Lover
03 Forces From Above
04 Hell
05 The River
06 Girl in a Sling
07 Times Square
08 Archer on the Beach
09 Midnight Meet the Rain
10 Solace’s Bride
11 Bangkok
12 Sun in the Sky
13 Times Square, Poison Season II
Destroyer:
09-18 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
09-19 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
09-20 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater
09-21 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
09-23 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
09-24 Dallas, TX – Trees
09-25 Lawrence, KS – The Granada
09-26 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music Cafe
09-27 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
09-29 Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch
09-30 Toronto, Ontario – The Danforth Music Hall
10-01 Montreal, Quebec – Theatre Fairmount
10-02 Boston, MA – Royale
10-03 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
10-04 New York, NY – Webster Hall
10-05 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
10-07 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
10-08 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
10-09 Atlanta, GA – The Loft
10-10 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
10-11 St. Louis, MO – The Ready Room
10-13 Denver, CO – The Bluebird Theater
10-14 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
10-15 Boise, ID – Neurolux
10-16 Seattle, WA – The Neptune
10-17 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Commodore Ballroom
10-30 London, England – Islington Assembly Hall
10-31 Brighton, England – The Haunt
11-01 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
11-02 Bristol, England – The Lantern
11-04 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
11-07 Bologna, Italy – Covo
11-08 Rome, Italy – Biko
11-09 Luzern, Switzerland – Sudpol
11-10 Lausanne, Switzerland – Le Romandie
11-11 St. Gallen, Switzerland – Palace
11-12 Vienna, Austria – Sczene
11-13 Munich, Germany – Kammerspiele
11-14 Cologne, Germany – Luxor
11-15 Berlin, Germany – Lido
11-17 Bergen, Norway – Hulen
11-18 Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
11-19 Stockholm, Sweden – Kagelbanan
11-20 Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
11-21 Utrecht, Netherlands – Le Guess Who? Festival
Watch Destroyer perform “Libby’s First Sunrise” on “City of Music”:
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