With a mere flick of his wrist, Dan Bejar (a.k.a. Destroyer) can announce a new album called Poison Season, share a track from that album, and post tour dates ALL AT ONCE. Well, he didn’t do it exactly; press people did it for him. But I’m assuming it’s because he flicked his wrist at some point. But then again, maybe he didn’t? Maybe Merge or someone who works there (could it have been Mac or Laura themselves?) flicked their wrist at some point recently and set all of these dominoes into motion? And you know what, now that I think about it, notwithstanding all the people who scooped me out there, I am the one who is doing all three things at once, and I’m not even sure who flicked their wrist and I’m not sure how to even go about figuring it out.
What I’m saying is I have no idea how the music industry works, and yet it is I who is tasked with telling you that Poison Season — Destroyer’s first album since 2011’s Kaputt — is out August 28. Because I take my task very seriously, I will also tell you that, in concurrence with Poison Season, Destroyer will release a limited 12-inch containing a remix of album track “Forces From Above” in addition to “Times Square, Poison Season.” Hmm, what else? Well, he’s going on tour, of course. Not much to say about that I guess. The song he shared, or that I am sharing for him, or that the internet is kindly allowing me to share by continuing to exist and to be structured around the language of HTML of which I understand just enough to embed SoundCloud players, is called “Dream Lover.” You can listen to it below if you would like.
Pre-order the album by itself here or bundled with the 12-inch I so dutifully mentioned in the last paragraph here.
Dates:
09.18.2015 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
09.19.2015 -San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
09.20.2015 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater
09.21.2015 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
09.23.2015 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk
09.24.2015 - Dallas, TX - Trees
09.25.2015 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada
09.26.2015 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe
09.27.2015 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
09.29.2015 - Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
09.30.2015 - Toronto, ON - The Danforth Music Hall
10.01.2015 - Montreal, QC - Theatre Fairmount
10.02.2015 - Boston, MA - Royale
10.03.2015 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
10.04.2015 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
10.05.2015 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10.07.2015 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
10.08.2015 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
10.09.2015 - Atlanta, GA - The Loft
10.10.2015 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
10.11.2015 - St. Louise, MO - The Ready Room
10.13.2015 - Denver, CO - The Bluebird Theater
10.14.2015 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
10.15.2015 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
10.16.2015 - Seattle, WA - The Neptune
10.17.2015 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom
10.30.2015 - London, UK - Islington Assembly Hall
10.31.2015 - Brighton, UK - The Haunt
11.01.2015 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
11.02.2015 - Bristol, UK - The Lantern
11.04.2015 - Brussels, BE - Botanique
11.07.2015 - Bologna, IT - Covo
11.08.2015 - Rome, IT - Biko
11.09.2015 - Luzern, CH - Sudpol
11.10.2015 - Lausanne, CH - Le Romandie
11.11.2015 - St. Gallen, CH - Palace
11.12.2015 - Vienna, AT - Sczene
11.13.2015 - Munich, DE - Kammerspiele
11.14.2015 - Cologne, DE - Luxor
11.15.2015 - Berlin, DE - Lido
11.17.2015 - Bergen, NO - Hulen
11.18.2015 - Oslo, NO - Parktheatret
11.19.2015 - Stockholm, SE - Kagelbanan
11.20.2015 - Copenhagen, DK - Pumpehuset
11.21.2015 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival
Poison Season tracklist:
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: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Destroyer/40560201870
• Merge: http://www.mergerecords.com