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19 April 2025

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Dan's Boogie

Destroyer

Dan's Boogie

Album number fourteen from the Canadian indie rock band fronted by New Pornographers member Dan Bejar

ADM rating[?]: 7.9
Label: Merge
UK Release date: 28/03/2025
US Release date: 28/03/2025

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10.0 140729
10.0 | The Guardian

Frightening fates await the protagonists of Dan Bejar’s 14th album, but the mercurial Canadian’s perspective and lavish instrumentation are a reminder of beauty’s potential
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9.0 | Northern Transmissions

Arguably, Dan’s Boogie is Bejar’s most graceful album yet
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8.2 | Paste Magazine

Dan Bejar’s 14th Destroyer album is both an intoxicating reflection on a remarkable, 30-year career and a thrilling, synth-opera step towards the project’s next chapter
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8.0 | Spill Magazine

His latest musical musings, that both musically and lyrically bring us all the key elements that graced Bejar’s music so far
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8.0 140831
8.0 | The Quietus

There’s plenty to explore and that’s without even mentioning Bejar’s beautifully crafted, sardonic lyrics, but don’t get too lost because Destroyer will be off somewhere else again soon
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8.0 | musicOMH

Reckless, euphoric and relentless, this may be the most surprising record of Dan Bejar’s wonderful career so far
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8.0 140735
8.0 | Pitchfork

Dan Bejar’s 14th Destroyer record is contemplative, morning-after music par excellence: He’s putting the whole story back together, knowing it’s all going to fall apart
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8.0 | Mojo

Dan's Boogie remains fascinatingly obscure in places, but these songs are full of buried gold. Print edition only
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7.8 | Spectrum Culture

With Dan’s Boogie, Bejar’s attention turns to the form and shape of his songs as he dabbles with a more improvised method of performing while also retaining the urgency and wit that has always defined his work
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7.0 140696
7.0 | Uncut

These songs insinuate via a vaguely vintage sound that recall both Jonathan Donahue's spangled dreaminess and the (s)weary brio of Father John Misty. Print edition only
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7.0 | Slant Magazine

A range of genres is complemented by lush production and creeping dissonance
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7.0 140698
7.0 | All Music

Some moments here (in particular "Cataract Time") rank among the best work in his catalog, making Dan's Boogie another chapter of knowing contradiction, unsettlement, and self-challenge in a body of work defined by these things
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