LA Times · Sep 21, 2015
Destroyer's Dan Bejar checks in at the Regent
Destroyer front man Dan Bejar, second from left, on stage at the Regent Theater on Sunday night.You didn’t have to attend Destroyer’s Sunday show at the Regent Theater to know that songwriter Dan Bejar and his band were going to have a hard time reproducing “Poison Season,” the band’s 10th album. Bejar’s been working for almost 20 years in a mode of rock song that pivots on the lyric, more melodic than the “speak-singing” tradition of Sprechgesang but less emotionally immediate than an unusually wordy songwriter like the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle.