By Ben Boddez
Frontman Will Toledo’s ambitious concept album invokes Spanish long poetry, Mozart, and the Canterbury Tales to tell the story of a contentious college.
10 | Destroyer - Labyrinthitis
Merge Records
by Luis Minvielle
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It might be demanding for anyone besides frontman Dan Bejar to catch all the underlying references in Labyrinthitis. But this hovering mystery is part of Destroyer’s magnetism.
Bejar’s inconceivably dense short stories and shocking U-turns in sound have cemented Destroyer as an indie mainstay for decades, and there’s no shortage of them on the band’s latest project named after a pandemic-induced mania experienced by the always enigmatic songwriter.
By Matthew Teklemariam
On their sophomore LP, the NYC quartet trade indie sheen for no-wave chaos and ecstatic, queer catharsis.
By Emma Johnston-Wheeler
The alt-pop experimentalist delivered a mesmerizing, emotional performance complete with surprise guests and a triumphant sense of self.
