Destroyer shares new single ‘Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World
DESTROYER SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘HYDROPLANING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD’
NEW ALBUM DAN’S BOOGIE OUT 28 MARCH VIA MERGE RECORDS
UK TOUR INCLUDING SHOW AT LONDON’S ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL ON 12 JUNE AS WELL AS SHOWS IN MANCHESTER AND BRISTOL
“As seductive and menacing as ever”
The Guardian
“An intoxicating mix of chanson and hypnotic, percussive indie pop”
The Observer ‘Hot Tracks’
“More maximalist pop anthems, magnificently derailed by the unreliable narration of the one and only Dan Bejar”
Uncut
“Decadent and intoxicating, a whole new world to discover from an artist who continues to redefine the parameters of his craft”
GoldFlakePaint
Watch the video for ‘Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWMUSs42M8
Last month, Destroyer announced Dan’s Boogie, out 28 March on Merge Records – the follow up to 2022’s Labyrinthitis (8.5 ‘Best New Music’ Pitchfork). Following previously shared single ‘Bologna (feat. Fiver)’, he today shares the video for new single ‘Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World’.
Far from pulling a disappearing act, Dan Bejar is front and centre in the Sydney Hermant–directed video. The video’s daytime scenes, shot by Hermant, show Bejar on the sort of walkabout that inspired the first stirrings of Dan’s Boogie, bringing narrative clarity to the song’s improvised lyrics until the disruption of the song’s new phase, its darkened sonic palette accompanied by Bejar-shot night footage of streets and alleyways that feel at once alien and familiar.
Dan Bejar on ‘Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World’:
“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.”
Sydney Hermant on the video:
“The video is a nesting doll of visualizers that are relaxing until they are not: Enter Dan’s night footage. Dan was trying to capture the wind. He did, but not in the way he thought he did.”
Dan’s Boogie drops just after the conclusion of a stripped-down North American tour supporting Father John Misty. The full seven-piece Destroyer band then embarks on a brief tour of the UK and Europe in June. With shows in Manchester, Bristol and at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on 12 June as well as performances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Porto, this will mark their first shows in this configuration in nearly three years, with more dates to come.
Photo Credit: Sydney Hermant
High-res images are available here
Pre-order Dan’s Boogie here:
https://lnk.to/DansBoogie
Dan’s Boogie tracklist:
1. The Same Thing as Nothing at All
2. Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World
3. Ignoramus of Love
4. Dan’s Boogie
5. Bologna (feat. Fiver)
6. I Materialize
7. Sun Meet Snow
8. Cataract Time
9. Travel Light
Tour dates:
7 June – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound 2025
9 June – Paris, FR @ Trabendo
10 June – Manchester @ Gorilla
11 June – Bristol @ Fleece
12 June – London @ Islington Assembly Hall
14 June – Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto
Tickets are available here:
https://www.mergerecords.com/tour/destroyer