Destroyer "Dan's Boogie"

In everyday language, a boogie refers to a dance or an occasion to dance. However, this being a Destroyer album and not bound by the common tongue, the title Dan’s Boogie carries deeper, more alluring, and dangerous connotations. “A boogie is a hustle, a scam that doesn’t quite work—the moves we make when we’re up against it,” explains Dan Bejar. “I think of spy work, double agents, sleeping with one eye open, and keeping an eye on the exits. But I also think of petty, street-level victories and losses, and improv.” To record Dan’s Boogie, Bejar had to navigate a series of intentional and unintentional barriers. Initially, he challenged himself not to write songs, letting ideas build up until they breached containment. The months following the completion of LABYRINTHITIS stretched into one year, then two. At that point, Bejar resolved to play the piano every day for an hour—a resolution that lasted about four days. Despite this short-lived routine, it sparked the creation of tracks lik