Destroyer Shares Video for 'Tinseltown'; Announces North American Tour Dates

We are pleased to share the video for Destroyer's new single "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood." The video was directed by KC (aka Karen Zolo) as an adaptation of the much-revered classic film La Jetée, which addresses contemporary issues of identity, borders, and race. Destroyer Shares Stunning Video For "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood"

KC offers the following statement about the video: "I'd just had a conversation about artist Chris Marker with a friend when I was approached to make a music video for the upcoming Destroyer album," said Zolo. "'You have a month.' Okay... I had no idea what the song even sounded like, but the only idea I had was to remake Chris Marker's La Jetée as faithfully as possible. It's not just an homage to the great cine-poet; it's also about the medium of film, about still photography. It would have been a billion times easier and less stressful to shoot it digitally, but it was worth it."

ken is Dan Bejar's 12th studio album. On naming the album, Dan says, "Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for 'The Wild Ones (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was 'Ken,'" said Bejar. "I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It's unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe 'The Wild Ones' speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think 'ken' also means 'to know.'"

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ken was produced by Josh Wells of Black Mountain, who has been the drummer in Destroyer since 2012. The album was recorded in its entirety in the jam space/studio space that the group calls The Balloon Factory. However, unlike Poison Season, ken was not recorded as a "band" record, though everyone in the band does make an appearance.

ken is available on CD, LP, and via digital outlets. A limited deluxe edition of the LP pressed on opaque yellow vinyl includes a bonus 7-inch containing solo acoustic versions of the album tracks "A Light Travels Down the Catwalk" and "Stay Lost." Both the standard and deluxe versions of the LP include a lyric insert and download card.

Track Listing

1. Sky's Grey

2. In the Morning

3. Tinseltown Swimming in Blood

4. Cover From the Sun

5. Saw You at the Hospital

6. A Light Travels Down the Catwalk

7. Rome

8. Sometimes in the World

9. Ivory Coast

10. Stay Lost

11. La Regle du Jeu

North American Tour Dates

Jan 10 Portland, OR - The Wonder Ballroom

Jan 11 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore

Jan 12 Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater

Jan 13 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom

Jan 15 Austin, TX - The Mohawk

Jan 16 Dallas, TX - Club Dada

Jan 17 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar

Jan 18 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe

Jan 19 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon

Jan 20 Chicago, IL - Metro

Jan 21 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick

Jan 22 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre

Jan 23 Montreal, QC - Theatre Fairmount

Jan 24 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair

Jan 26 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts

Jan 27 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel

Jan 28 Washington, DC - Black Cat

Jan 29 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle

Jan 30 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle

Jan 31 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West

Feb 01 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge

Feb 02 St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill

Feb 03 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room

Feb 05 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater

Feb 06 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge

Feb 07 Boise, ID - Olympic Venue

Feb 08 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre

Feb 09 Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom

UK/EU Tour Dates

Nov 12 Hamburg, DE - Kampnagel

Nov 13 Aarhus, DK - Voxhall

Nov 14 Oslo, NO - John Dee

Nov 15 Stockholm, SE - Fasching

Nov 16 Copenhagen, DN - Vega

Nov 17 Berlin, DE - Festsaal Kreuzberg

Nov 19 Dusseldorf, DE - New Fall Festival

Nov 21 Zurich, CH - Rote Fabrik

Nov 22 Montpellier, FR - Le Rockstore

Nov 23 San Sebastian, ES - Teatro Victoria Eugenia

Nov 24 Lisbon, PR - Mexefest

Nov 25 Madrid, ES - Teatro Barcelo

Nov 26 Valencia, ES - La Rambleta

Nov 27 Barcelona, ES - Sala Bikini

Nov 29 Lille, FR - L'Aeronef

Nov 30 Brighton, UK - Patterns

Dec 01 Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club

Dec 03 Dublin, IE - Button Factory

Dec 05 Glasgow, UK - CCA (270)

Dec 06 Newcastle, UK - The Cluny

Dec 07 London, UK - Scala

Dec 08 Paris, FR - Petit Bain

Dec 09 Amsterdam, NE - Paradiso Noord

Dec 10 Brussels, BE - Botanique Brussels

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