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Mar 28, 2025Swaggers from rococo to shambling, haunted to boisterous. It is just as rapturous as his 2011 breakout, Kaputt – unerring quality being another Destroyer trademark.
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May 1, 2025While 15 more minutes would delight, the runtime feels purposeful. Like its photographic counterpart, the message to new listeners and fans alike seems clear: “Here’s Destroyer, distilled—an entryway, and a classic.”
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Apr 4, 2025Dan’s Boogie, Destroyer’s fourteenth album played by a decades-established seven-strong band, sounds magnificent from the outset, a tribute more than anything to doing this job for so long.
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Mar 28, 2025Dan’s Boogie rewards those who have loyally followed a discography that has shifted and evolved from sparse indie-rock, to smooth jazz-infused synth-pop and vivacious new wave temperaments. The album merges all of these components with awesome results.
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Record CollectorApr 17, 2025Bejar's MO remains a richly cinematic pleasure: alluring, allusive and absorbing. [May 2025, p.103]
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Apr 8, 2025Complex yet surprisingly accessible, Dan’s Boogie doesn’t necessarily break a huge amount of new ground. It does however, see Bejar successfully refining his craft even further with superb results.
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Apr 1, 2025Dan’s Boogie is not a facsimile of its predecessors. It is funnier, wiser, though the stakes are perhaps a little lower. .... It all feels effortless, like he’s been doing this for his whole life, which he basically has.
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Mar 31, 2025Dan’s Boogie is reckless, euphoric, relentless. Over the course of Bejar’s wonderful career, he’s made several surprising records, and this may be the most surprising of all.
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Mar 25, 2025Bejar’s return to his Destroyer moniker is a welcomed continuation of his colorful discography while introducing a new side of the artist’s balladry, one that is a welcomed shift in the pantheon of Bejar’s sonic explorations.
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MojoMar 24, 2025Dan's Boogie remains fascinatingly obscure in places, but these songs are full of buried gold. [May 2025, p.84]
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UncutMar 24, 2025These songs insinuate via a vaguely vintage sound that recall both Jonathan Donahue's spangled dreaminess and the (s)weary brio of Father John Misty. [Apr 2025, p.29]
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Mar 24, 2025Some tracks are easier to digest than others, and the frenzied energy of much of the album might make Dan's Boogie a less-than-ideal starting point for new fans. Paradoxically, some moments here (in particular "Cataract Time") rank among the best work in his catalog.
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Mar 24, 2025At their worst, such as that improvised section of “Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World,” Bejar’s lyrics can feel like the product of a magnetic poetry kit. But in songs like the inviting “British Columbian Prayer,” Dan’s Boogie locates a newfound tenderness in Destroyer’s music, albeit without spelling out its source.
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