Hell Yeah, New Destroyer Single

Things are bad all over, but at least we live in an era where Destroyer, the puzzle box of a band helmed by Dan Bejar, is releasing music. The new Destroyer album, Dan’s Boogie, is coming towards us like a freight train, and today he dropped a very 2000s video for the single “Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World.” The song rips as expected, and like a lot of this period of Destroyer that we’ve been experiencing for the last decade or so, the track starts big and builds until you’re begging for mercy.

The new single comes with a video, shot by Sydney Hermant on a Canon GL2 - a prosumer digital camera released in 2002. At one point these were the wave of the future, but now they just look like the past in the best way. Bejar said of the production:

Me and Sydney started this off as a “Hydroplaning” visualizer, dusting off her 24-year-old Canon GL2 after many dormant years. I love the grain of the picture. Then things ballooned into a full-on video. I walk around in it, trying to look Parisian, talking to the crows. Basically a day in the life of…. I shot the nighttime stuff and it is my finest hour. Sydney did the rest.

The whole video feels suitably dreamlike, and yeah, the night footage is incredible. Dan’s Boogie is out on 3/28 from Merge Records. Check out the video below.

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