Have We Met

On his masterful new album, Dan Bejar moves like a ghost through his familiar and inscrutable universe.

Cult hero Dan Bejar's latest electro album offers a sharp, dark look at the world today – and he put himself in the firing line

Dan Bejar returns with another superb LP

He still has plenty to say and even more fantastical ways to say it.

Dan Bejar goes into full lounge-lizard mode on his latest Destroyer record, Have We Met

Dan Bejar was flirting with disaster when he began writing the latest Destroyer record. Originally conceived as a Y2K throwback, Have We Met...

Crimson Tide; a 1995 blockbuster drama somewhat inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis, perhaps inspires the name, if nothing else, for the opening track of Destroyer's 12th album Have We Met.

The album both calls attention to its artifice and proves it can still hold a broad emotional range.

The actual music on Have We Met isn't particularly remarkable.

Have We Met by Destroyer, album review by Stewart Wiseman. The full-length is due for release on January 31st, via Merge Records

Dan Bejar seems to be channelling superficially shiny 80s pop but beneath the surface there is the same alarm. Off-beam and compelling

Album Reviews: Destroyer - Have We Met

Dan Bejar has produced something both doomily familiar and refreshingly modern