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Feb 05, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Destroyer (the project of Dan Bejar) is releasing a new album, Dan’s Boogie, on March 28 via Merge. Now he has shared its second single, “Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World,” via a music video. Sydney Hermant directed the song’s video. Watch it below, followed by Destroyer’s upcoming tour dates.

Bejar had this to say in a press release: “Me and Sydney started this off as a ‘Hydroplaning’ visualizer, dusting off her 24-year-old Canon GL2 after many dormant years. I love the grain of the picture. Then things ballooned into a full-on video. I walk around in it, trying to look Parisian, talking to the crows. Basically a day in the life of…. I shot the nighttime stuff and it is my finest hour. Sydney did the rest.”

Hermant adds: “The video is a nesting doll of visualizers that are relaxing until they are not: Enter Dan’s night footage. Dan was trying to capture the wind. He did, but not in the way he thought he did.”

Previously Destroyer shared Dan’s Boogie’s first single “Bologna,” via a music video. The song features Fiver’s Simone Schmidt and was one of our Songs of the Week.

Destroyer’s last album, LABYRINTHITIS, came out in March 2022 via Merge. It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2022. Read our interview with Destroyer on the album here.

Destroyer Tour Dates:

Feb 13 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern* [SOLD OUT]
Feb 14 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium* [SOLD OUT]
Feb 15 Louisville, KY – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall* [SOLD OUT]
Feb 17 Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live!*
Feb 18 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore*
Feb 19 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE*
Feb 21 Toronto, ON – Massey Hall* [SOLD OUT]
Feb 22 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway*
Feb 23 Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center* [SOLD OUT]
Feb 25 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre* [SOLD OUT]
Feb 26 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre*
Feb 28 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore* [SOLD OUT]
Mar 01 Washington, DC – The Anthem*
Mar 03 Chicago, IL – Chicago Humanities Festival [SOLD OUT]
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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