Destroyer’s Poison Season came out last year, and Dan Bejar released a new 12” earlier this year that featured his track “My Mystery.” Bejar is going out on a solo tour this fall. The tour announcement promises that falls will be able to hear previews of “at least 10 new guitar-based tracks,” according to a press release. Find those dates below.
Destroyer:
09-21 Spokane, WA – The Bartlett
09-22 Missoula, MT – Top Hat
09-24 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium
09-25 Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge
09-26 Columbia, MO – Café Berlin
09-27 Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s
09-28 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
09 -29 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder
09-30 Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits
10-01 Birmingham, AL – WorkPlay
10-02 Orlando, FL – The Social
10-04 Athens, GA – Caledonia Lounge
10-05 Lexington KY – The Burl
10-06 Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light
10-07 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
10-08 Columbus, OH – Basement
10-09 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
10-10 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
Destroyer released his latest album, Poison Season last year and during the sessions for that LP, Dan Bejar also recorded a song named “My Mystery” that did not make the final cut to the tracklist. Now, it is finally going to be released on a new 12″, set to be out May 6th via Merge. (It will also be available digitally.) The new song is backed with the remix from DJjohnedwardcollins@gmail.com, who is the New Pornographers’ John Collins and a member of Bejar’s live band. It is not Collins’ first Poison Season remix; he also released his remix of “Forces From Above.” Bejar has shared a video for the remix. Directed by Nicolas Bragg, the visual shows him exploring the streets of Mexico City. Watch it below. Additionally, Bejar has announced more tour dates for Poison Season. Find his itinerary below.
Read what Bejar said about “My Mystery” and its remix in a press release:
We recorded a song called “My Mystery” a year and a half ago. Kind of a light number, vaguely danceable. Wistful, looking back not unfondly on time spent and dull misadventures had within the dead-as-a-doornail music industry. And the feeling of where it leaves you, like a rat in the middle of the ocean, though not as harsh as that; as if rats could swim an ocean’s length.
Then one day DJ johnedwardcollins@gmail.com called me up and said, “You got any shit for me?”…
Destroyer:
04-16 Beijing, China – Yugong Yishan
04-17 Shanghai, China – Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
04-20 Seoul, South Korea – V-Hall
04-22 Taipei, Taiwan – The Wall
04-23 Bangkok, Thailand – Live RCA
06-02 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera
06-03 Nimes, France – This Is Not a Love Song
06-04 Paris, France – Le Divan Du Monde
06-05 Mannheim, Germany – Maifeld Derby Festival
06-06 Dornbirn, Austria – Conrad Sohm
06-07 Rome, Italy – Teatro Quirinetta
06-08 Marina di Ravenna, Italy – Beaches Brew
06-10 Porto, Portugal – Primavera
06-11 St Gallen, Switzerland – Palace
06-12 Liege, Belgium – Reflektor
06-14 Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rockhal
06-15 London, England – Oval Space
06-16 Ghent, Belgium – DOK
06-17 Lucerne, Switzerland – B-Sides
06-18 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret
06-19 Erlangen, Germany – E-Werk
06-20 Leipzig, Germany – Werk 2
06-22 Prague, Czech Republic – Lucerna Music Bar
06-23 Kosice, Slovakia – Tabacka
06-24 Bialystok, Poland – Halfway Festival
06-26 Oslo, Norway – Picnic in Parken
06-27 Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik
06-28 Malmö, Sweden – Babel
06-29 Hamburg, Germany – Knust
06-30 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
Dan Bejar has premiered a new video for “Times Square,” the newest single from his upcoming Destroyer album, Poison Season. The visual, which isdirected by Shayne Ehman, features woodland creatures getting high along with clips of Bejar singing at the camera. The creatures were made with stop-motion animation.
Watch here, and read a statement from Ehman on the video below:
“We ended up just wandering around New York til 3am and the city seemed completely dead. We could have been anywhere, really. I needed to get outside and shoot in natural light in order to serve as a sort of conduit for those ‘forces of nature in love…’ which seem to rule the song. I let the sun do its thing and let the earth do it’s thing and watched time unfold. I watched the clouds unfold and unpack and packup. I was at their mercy, completely.”
Poison Season, which is the follow-up to Kaput, comes out tomorrow, August 28th through Merge Records. It is available to stream in full here.
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