More than just giving the song titles the names of historical black and brown icons of literature

“which might sound weird considering we’ve been making music together for all these years

Although Alfred Hilsberg of the notorious ZickZack label (Palais Schaumburg

Artwork by Kii Arens • Photo by Hedi Slimane

“Black Grease” is a bluesy monster full of swagger propelled by the primitive beat of drummer Stephanie Bailey and the mourning drone of organist Jennifer Raines

Destroyer - Have We Met? Sugarcube More than just giving theDESTROYER conceived of Have We Met as a Y2K album. DAN BEJAR assigned producer and bandmate JOHN COLLINS the role of layering synth and rhythm sections over demos with the period specific Bjrk, Air, and Massive Attack in mind, but he soon realized the sonic template was too removed from Destroyers own, and the idea of a concept was silly anyway. So he abandoned it and gave Collins the most timeless instruction of all: Make it sound cool. The result is