For much of his career, Vancouver songwriter Dan Bejar has been one of those musical chameleons — a Bowie or a Beck, whose arrangement style could change completely from album to album while still preserving the core of his distinctive voice.
With that kind of adventurous catalogue, it's only natural that at some points that Bejar would glance backward — and that's his mode on Dan's Boogie, which touches on the baroque bombast of Rubies (2006) and Poison Season (2015), the smooth sophisti-pop of Kaputt (2011), and the synthesized elements of Have We Met (2020) and LABYRINTHITIS (2022), which are all tied together by his cryptic sing-speak poetry.
With nine songs in a streamlined 37 minutes, it's a succinct introduction to everything that makes Destroyer great. If you have a Destroyer-curious friend who needs an introduction to the project's sprawling catalogue, this is as good a starting point as any.