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Membership restricted entry - AICS membership card required - More Info at https://www.locomotivclub.it/tesseramento/ Access information for minors at https://short-url.org/locomotiv-faq Destroyer announces its arrival in Italy with Dan's Boogie, the new album released on March 28, 2025 for Merge Records, follow-up to the acclaimed Labyrinthitis from 2022 (8.5 "Best New Music" on Pitchfork). "Bologna", the first single extracted, represents a radical rereading of the Destroyer sound universe: it is the first song written by Dan Bejar for the band in which he imagines himself as a secondary character. Here he acts as a voice-over behind the scenes of the main action, trapped in the dark green room depicted on the cover of Dan's Boogie, while Simone Schmidt of Fiver moves like a fleeing figure, present one moment and gone the next. Schmidt's voice, intense and expressive, traverses the darkness of the song, giving it a gravitational tension that revolves around a sense of imminent catastrophe. Dan Bejar recounts: "I didn't write many songs like 'Bologna'. I had difficulty singing the first and third verses, the most important parts of the song. They needed weight and roughness. The threat of disappearing had to be real. So I called Simone." The video for "Bologna" amplifies the song's atmosphere with a found VHS aesthetic, between first-person footage and a feverish and disturbing narrative. As director David Galloway explains: "How do you start a 'Dear John' letter? There are so many online tools that can help you. You can learn anything on the internet: picking locks, accessing your neighbor's Wi-Fi, taking on 'challenges', applying makeup. Makeup is very popular right now, isn't it? You can also find advice to start a new life, if the one you have isn't enough for you anymore. Or, simply, 'Bologna'." Dan's Boogie marks a turning point for Destroyer: an album that traverses the entire sonic spectrum built by Bejar and his collaborators, between richly detailed pop epics, intimate piano ballads and atmospheric tracks that blur the boundaries between music, literature and cinema, charged with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tormented spy.