{"id":24218,"date":"2015-07-16T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24218"},"modified":"2015-07-16T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:20:13","slug":"watch-destroyers-official-video-for-girl-in-a-sling-impending-poison-season-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-07\/watch-destroyers-official-video-for-girl-in-a-sling-impending-poison-season-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Destroyer’s Official Video for “Girl In A Sling” From Impending “Poison Season” Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a long wait since Destroyer\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> masterful, synth-disco album Kaputt<\/strong><\/em> (No. 3 on our Best Albums of 2011<\/strong><\/a>).\u00a0 But at long last the wait is over with next month’s release of Poison Season <\/strong><\/em>(tracklist at bottom).\u00a0 We’ve already heard the guitar-sax, Springsteen-esque-but-completely-Destroyer Dream Lover <\/strong><\/em>(listen at bottom), and now leader Dan Bejar<\/strong> has released a counter-point ballad entitled Girl In A Sling <\/strong><\/em>on Merge Records<\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s a beauty that will destroy you and destruction never sounded this good.<\/p>\n

Video director David Galloway<\/strong> has this to say about the video:<\/p>\n

“Bejar sings a lot about cities and girls and injury, sometimes all at the same time. Sometimes they are the same thing, as surreal novelists would have us believe. Besides, people like to see Dan sing \u2014 which he doesn\u2019t do a lot of in this video, but he does do a little bit. We wanted to make a video that dealt with central Destroyer themes: to some, Destroyer is a lech; to some, he is an arsonist; to some, he is a savior. To me, he is the consummate comedian, but he resists that role. So we decided to go the opposite way and make something sad, something tragic, something that fits the new record. The adage \u201ccomedy equals tragedy plus time\u201d is attributed to Carol Burnett\u2019s mum. Or it might have been Steve Allen. Either way, I always want Dan to do physical comedy, but he resists. He\u2019s a natural, though. He\u2019s the Pacific Northwest\u2019s Buster Keaton, and I hope one day to share that with the world. One day. For now, though, there\u2019s just this sadness. This poison season.\u201d<\/p>\n

In support, Destroyer<\/strong> will head out in September on a world tour<\/a>.\u00a0 Check the new songs below.<\/p>\n