Today, Destroyer announces Dan’s Boogie, out March 28, 2025, on Merge Records. Accompanying the announcement is a David Galloway–directed music video for lead single “Bologna (feat. Fiver).”

“Bologna” is a radical reframing of the Destroyer milieu, the first song Bejar’s ever written for the band in which he imagines himself as a supporting character. He functions like behind-the-scenes commentary on the song’s main action, trapped in the dingy green room on the cover of Dan’s Boogie, while Fiver’s Simone Schmidt operates like a person on the lam, here one minute and gone the next. Schmidt’s voice, tough and expressive, pierces through the murk of the scene, its gravity pulling “Bologna” into order around a sense of impending doom.

Dan Bejar on “Bologna”: “I haven’t written many songs like “Bologna.” I struggled singing the first and third verses, the most important parts of the song. They needed gravity and grit. The threat of disappearing needed to be real. So I called Simone.”

The video for “Bologna” meets the song’s cool tones with the panicked frenzy of first-person footage on a long-lost VHS tape, its narrative lurid and incriminating. As director David Galloway explains: “How do you begin a “Dear John” letter? I suppose there are lots of online tools available to anyone with a phone that can help you get that type of thing started. In fact, you can learn all kinds of stuff with the internet. It’s amazing. How to pick locks, how to access your neighbours’ WiFi, how to meet a “challenge,” how to put on makeup. Makeup is pretty big these days, hey? You can also definitely find tips and tricks to help you start a whole new life if the one you have doesn’t seem to cut the mustard. Rather, “Bologna.””

Dan’s Boogie is a breakthrough album for Destroyer, with songs across the vast spectrum he and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema, each brimming with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tortured spy.

2025 is proving to be a busy year for Destroyer, as Dan’s Boogie drops just after the conclusion of a stripped-down North American tour supporting Father John Misty. The full seven-piece Destroyer band embarks on a brief tour of the UK and Europe in June, marking their first shows in this configuration in nearly three years, with more dates to come.