Thirty years ago, Dan Bejar picked up an acoustic guitar and started performing as Destroyer. Since then, the project has consistently evolved: into a full band on 1998’s City of Daughters, toward pop music on 2011’s Kaputt, into the electronic realm on 2020’s Have We Met and 2022’s Labyrinthitis.
So where would Bejar go from here? First, nowhere: For more than a year, he stopped writing music. Eventually, he found his answer in front of the piano. Bejar had been messing with keyboards since Kaputt...