Released: 2022
Look, everyone is weird to someone. Weirdness is a part of the human condition as much as breathing, and you couldn’t stop yourself from being weird, even if you tried. Along with a rolling cast of other musicians – a profession that’s full of weird folks by default – Dan Bejar has been exploring paths less trodden for thirty years as Destroyer, a project that can be as rewarding as you want it to be.
Destroyer’s fourteenth album Labyrinthitis was a case in point. Drawing variously on threads as diverse as Silver Jews, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and Nick Cave to underscore just a few, it in kind mixed disco, art rock, dream pop and funk. Here Bejar was working the margins as ever, plugging the electrodes into another glorious Frankenstein.
It’s probably cowardice then to select the opener It’s In Your Heart Now for the exercise, but you can make up your own list if you feel aggrieved. The album’s most orthodox track, on it Bejar wrestles lyrically with a cloaked notion just off screen, whilst the seven minute running time becomes a ragged jam that he separates from like a passenger leaping off a ship. It’s weird. But what isn’t? Certainly not you.
The Voice Of Unreason 
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