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May 21, 2015 Destroyer By Mike Hilleary

Destroyer, aka Dan Bejar, has announced the release of his newest album Poison Season, his first full-length work since 2011’s Kaputt. Scheduled to arrive Aug. 28, the double LP will see distribution by Merge in the U.S. and Dead Oceans in the UK. Coinciding with the record’s announcement Bejar has shared the LP’s artwork (pictured), tracklist (below), and its lead single “Dream Lover.”

The same day as Poison Season‘s due date, Bejar will release a two-song 12’‘ featuring a remix of the album’s “Forces From Above” and an orchestral version of “Times Square, Poison Season.” Different versions of the latter song are also used to open and close Poison Season. According to Bejar, “The first and last songs are actually one song tracked live with quintet. I even sang with the band. That song always swung between super austere and super mid-‘70s Springsteen/Bowie street-rock. In the end, I decided I wanted both. Couldn’t really figure out a way to sequence the orchestral version within the record, so I decided to carve it up as a book-ending motif, with the rock version squarely in the middle.”

Destroyer is poised to kick off an international tour behind the new record starting this September. Scroll down below to view the dates.

Poison Season:

01 Times Square, Poison Season
02 Dream Lover
03 Forces From Above
04 Hell
05 The River
06 Girl in a Sling
07 Times Square
08 Archer on the Beach
09 Midnight Meet the Rain
10 Solace’s Bride
11 Bangkok
12 Sun in the Sky
13 Times Square, Poison Season II

Destroyer Tour Dates:

09-18 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
09-19 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
09-20 Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater
09-21 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
09-23 Austin, TX - The Mohawk
09-24 Dallas, TX - Trees
09-25 Lawrence, KS - The Granada
09-26 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe
09-27 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
09-29 Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
09-30 Toronto, Ontario - The Danforth Music Hall
10-01 Montreal, Quebec - Theatre Fairmount
10-02 Boston, MA - Royale
10-03 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
10-04 New York, NY - Webster Hall
10-05 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10-07 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
10-08 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
10-09 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
10-10 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
10-11 St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room
10-13 Denver, CO - The Bluebird Theater
10-14 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
10-15 Boise, ID - Neurolux
10-16 Seattle, WA - The Neptune
10-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Commodore Ballroom
10-30 London, England - Islington Assembly Hall
10-31 Brighton, England - The Haunt
11-01 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club
11-02 Bristol, England - The Lantern
11-04 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
11-07 Bologna, Italy - Covo
11-08 Rome, Italy - Biko
11-09 Luzern, Switzerland - Sudpol
11-10 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Romandie
11-11 St. Gallen, Switzerland - Palace
11-12 Vienna, Austria - Sczene
11-13 Munich, Germany - Kammerspiele
11-14 Cologne, Germany - Luxor
11-15 Berlin, Germany - Lido
11-17 Bergen, Norway - Hulen
11-18 Oslo, Norway - Parkteatret
11-19 Stockholm, Sweden - Kagelbanan
11-20 Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset
11-21 Utrecht, Netherlands - Le Guess Who? Festival

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