Destroyer

Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo project in Vancouver in 1995. In the meantime, Bejar, along with Carl Newman and Neko Case, became one of the primary songwriters responsible for the much-acclaimed debut album by The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic, released in 2000. In 2001, the Destroyer album Streethawk: A Seduction was released on Misra Records. A critical success, the album retrospectively received a rating of 9.1/10 from Pitchfork.

Destroyer songs are characterized by abstract, poetic lyrics and idiosyncratic vocals. The band's discography draws on a variety of musical influences, resulting in albums that can sound markedly distinct from one another; in Bejar's words, "That's kind of my goal: to start from scratch every time.”