DESTROYER SHARES “BOLOGNA (FEAT. FIVER)” FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM DAN’S BOOGIE
ALBUM OUT MARCH 28 VIA MERGE
Destroyer announces Dan’s Boogie, out March 28, 2025, on Merge Records. Accompanying the announcement is a David Galloway–directed music video for lead single “Bologna (feat. Fiver)”. Alongside the announcement, Destroyer shares their 2025 tour schedule including a date at Massey Hall in Toronto on February 21 with Father John Misty.
“Bologna” is a radical reframing of the Destroyer milieu, the first song Dan Bejar’s ever written for the band in which he imagines himself as a supporting character. He functions like behind-the-scenes commentary on the song’s main action, trapped in the dingy green room on the cover of Dan’s Boogie, while Fiver’s Simone Schmidt operates like a person on the lam, here one minute and gone the next. Schmidt’s voice, tough and expressive, pierces through the murk of the scene, its gravity pulling “Bologna” into order around a sense of impending doom.
Dan Bejar on “Bologna”:
I haven’t written many songs like “Bologna.” I struggled singing the first and third verses, the most important parts of the song. They needed gravity and grit. The threat of disappearing needed to be real. So I called Simone.
The video for “Bologna” meets the song’s cool tones with the panicked frenzy of first-person footage on a long-lost VHS tape, its narrative lurid and incriminating. As director David Galloway explains:
How do you begin a “Dear John” letter? I suppose there are lots of online tools available to anyone with a phone that can help you get that type of thing started. In fact, you can learn all kinds of stuff with the internet. It’s amazing. How to pick locks, how to access your neighbours’ WiFi, how to meet a “challenge,” how to put on makeup. Makeup is pretty big these days, hey? You can also definitely find tips and tricks to help you start a whole new life if the one you have doesn’t seem to cut the mustard. Rather, “Bologna.”
Dan’s Boogie is a breakthrough album for Destroyer, with songs across the vast spectrum he and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema, each brimming with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tortured spy.
2025 is proving to be a busy year for Destroyer, as 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 embarks on a brief tour of the UK and Europe in June, marking their first shows in this configuration in nearly three years, with more dates to come.
Tour Dates
Feb 13 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern*
Feb 14 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium*
Feb 15 Louisville, KY – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall*
Feb 17 Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live!*
Feb 18 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore*
Feb 19 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE*
Feb 21 Toronto, ON – Massey Hall*
Feb 22 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway*
Feb 23 Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center*
Feb 25 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre*
Feb 26 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre*
Feb 28 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore*
Mar 01 Washington, DC – The Anthem*
Mar 03 Chicago, IL – Chicago Humanities Festival
Jun 07 Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound 2025
Jun 09 Paris, FR – Trabendo
Jun 10 Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Jun 11 Bristol, UK – Fleece
Jun 12 London, UK – Islington Assembly
Jun 14 Porto, PT – Primavera Sound Porto
*w/ Father John Misty
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Background Photo Credit: David Galloway
