The D Man has a bunch of summer vibes to catch up on. But the new Destroyer song/video from the forthcoming Poison Season must be addressed first. "Girl in a Sling" is a world weary, post-suburban sigh. A sort of "Send in the Clowns," center stage soliloquy for the streetwise bard. Few writers and vocalists can pull something off like this, and Dan Bejar was made for this type of lovelorn breakdown.
The video's director had this to say about the clip:
Bejar sings a lot about cities and girls and injury, sometimes all at the same time. Sometimes they are the same thing, as surreal novelists would have us believe. Besides, people like to see Dan sing—which he doesn't do a lot of in this video, but he does do a little bit. We wanted to make a video that dealt with central Destroyer themes: to some, Destroyer is a lech; to some, he is an arsonist; to some, he is a savior. To me, he is the consummate comedian, but he resists that role. So we decided to go the opposite way and make something sad, something tragic, something that fits the new record. The adage “comedy equals tragedy plus time” is attributed to Carol Burnett's mum. Or it might have been Steve Allen. Either way, I always want Dan to do physical comedy, but he resists. He's a natural, though. He's the Pacific Northwest's Buster Keaton, and I hope one day to share that with the world. One day. For now, though, there's just this sadness. This poison season.
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