Destroyer Releases ‘June’ Single

Destroyer released a new single, “June,” and an accompanying video. The track appears on LABYRINTHITIS, a studio album out March 25 on Merge Records.

The 10 songs on LABYRINTHITIS were mostly written in 2020, the same year the project founded and fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar issued the Destroyer LP Have We Met. Bejar worked remotely with longtime collaborator and producer John Collins on the LABYRINTHITIS material in British Columbia while each was locked down due to the pandemic with John on the remote Galiano Island and Dan in Vancouver. The album was recorded last spring.

“Lyrically, LABYRINTHITIS embraces a widescreen maximalism, blocks of text dotted with subversions and hedges,” as per press materials heralding the forthcoming LP. “Building from the koans of Have We Met, Bejar continues to carve his words precisely, toying with expectations and staid symbols, while Collins’ production reconstructs the pieces into a unified whole.”

Destroyer previously released LABYRINTHITIS tracks “Tintoretto, It’s for You” and “Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread”. Bejar directed the “June” video with David Galloway. “Is it spring where you are? I think June is technically summer, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make,” Galloway said of the song. “The flowers are starting to come out now, and the birds sure as hell are. There it was; the future just flew by. What’s the quorum on something like that?”

See Destroyer’s “June” video starring Bejar below: