Destroy Boys have announced that they’ll follow 2021’s Open Mouth, Open Heart with their fourth album, Funeral Soundtrack #4, on Aug. 9 via Hopeless Records (preorder).
As for why it’s called that, guitarist Violet Mayugba says, “Looking back, our first three albums marked the deaths of things. The first one was our high school album. On the second record, we went to college and were saying goodbye to our childhood. On the third one, we’d just gone through COVID, and, speaking for myself, I lost my entire sense of self and gained a new one.”
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Having made their last album with Will Yip, this one was produced by Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, the Linda Lindas, Best Coast), and it includes a song featuring both Mannequin Pussy and Scowl called “You Hear Yes.” You may have noticed that three songs from the album are already out — “Plucked,” “Beg For The Torture,” and “Shadow (I’m Breaking Down)” — and today they’ve released a fourth, the album closer “Boyfeel.” It’s a song that vocalist/guitarist Alexia Roditis began writing back in 2017 at 17 years old about their relationship with gender nonconformity, and the Tay Allard-directed video explores those same themes.
Watch the videos for all four singles and check out the artwork, tracklist, and list of upcoming tour dates below.
Funeral Soundtrack #4 tracklist
1. Bad Guy
2. Plucked
3. Beg For The Torture
4. Praying
5. Amor divino
6. Shadow (I’m Breaking Down)
7. Shedding Skin
8. Should’ve Been Me
9. You Don’t Know
10. You Hear Yes (feat. Mannequin Pussy and Scowl)
11. Boyfeel
Destroy Boys 2024 tour dates
July 27: Milwaukee, WI
July 28: Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
July 29: Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
July 31: Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
Aug 1: St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag
Aug 2: Chicago, IL @ Subterranean (Lollapalooza After Show)
Aug 3: Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
Aug 14: Paredes De Coura, Portugal @ Paredes De Coura
Aug 15: Charleville-mezieres, France @ Cabaret Vert
Aug 19: Esch-sur-alzette, Luxembourg @ Rockhal
Aug 20: Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenburg
Aug 22: Saint-Cloud, France @ Rock En Seine
Aug 23: Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
Aug 24: Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
Aug 25: Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
