Destroyer has shared a new single, ‘Hydroplaning off the Edge of the World’, lifted from the upcoming album Dan’s Boogie. It comes paired with a music video directed by frequent collaborator Sydney Hermant, featuring nighttime footage shot by Dan Bejar himself. Check it out below.
“Me and Sydney started this off as a ‘Hydroplaning’ visualizer, dusting off her 24-year-old Canon GL2 after many dormant years,” Bejar said in a statement. “I love the grain of the picture. Then things ballooned into a full-on video. I walk around in it, trying to look Parisian, talking to the crows. Basically a day in the life of.”
Hermant added: “The video is a nesting doll of visualizers that are relaxing until they are not: Enter Dan’s night footage. Dan was trying to capture the wind. He did, but not in the way he thought he did.”
‘Hydroplaning off the Edge of the World’ is the second offering from Dan’s Boogie, following last month’s ‘Bologna’. The follow-up to 2022’s Labyrinthitis is due March 28 via Merge.