Have We Met

Destroyer

MP3 (320kbps) ? $7.99 BUY
FLAC ? $9.49 BUY
CD $12.98 BUY
LP $19.98 BUY

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MRG709 | Release Date January 31, 2020

CD: Housed in a 4-panel gatefold wallet with folded lyric insert.

LP: Black vinyl inside a lined black dustsleeve. Includes 12” × 12” lyric insert and digital download card.

Peak Vinyl: Limited-edition pressing on seafoam green vinyl. Same packaging as standard LP. ***This version is sold out on the Merge Records store. Check with your favorite local record shop to see if they have it in stock!***

Also available: The Destroyer pin we made to celebrate the release of Have We Met.

Have We Met can also be found at your favorite local, independent record store.

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Destroyer’s Dan Bejar initially conceived of Have We Met as a Y2K album. He was already active during the era but not heard overhead in a cafe or salon, which is perhaps what the idea of the Y2K sound evokes nearly two decades later. Bejar assigned frequent producer and bandmate John Collins the role of layering synth and rhythm sections over demos with the period-specific Björk, Air, and Massive Attack in mind, but he soon realized the sonic template was too removed from Destroyer’s 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.”

Atmosphere and loose approximations of a place or feeling are what we’ve come to expect from any new Destroyer record—certainly not an easily defined and stridently adhered to theme or concept. Have We Met manages to meet somewhere between those disparate Y2K reference points and Destroyer’s own area of expertise, gliding deftly into territory that marries the old strident Destroyer with the new, aged crooning one of late.

Track/Song Title Artist Duration Price MP3 Track
Play Crimson Tide Destroyer 6:10 $0.99 Buy
Play Kinda Dark Destroyer 3:25 $0.99 Buy
Play It Just Doesn’t Happen Destroyer 5:01 $0.99 Buy
Play The Television Music Supervisor Destroyer 4:10 $0.99 Buy
Play The Raven Destroyer 3:35 $0.99 Buy
Play Cue Synthesizer Destroyer 3:55 $0.99 Buy
Play University Hill Destroyer 3:40 $0.99 Buy
Play Have We Met Destroyer 2:55 $0.99 Buy
Play The Man in Black’s Blues Destroyer 3:40 $0.99 Buy
Play foolssong Destroyer 5:45 $0.99 Buy

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What is the difference between MP3 and FLAC files?

Merge offers the highest quality MP3s possible. They are encoded without DRM using the LAME version 3.97 encoder at non-variable rate of 320 kbps. At this quality level, the sound is essentially indistinguishable from a CD.

We also offer FLAC digital music files. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an uncompressed audio format. As such, FLAC files provide a perfect digital copy of a given piece of music.

MP3s eliminate audio data in order to reduce file size. FLAC files are by definition 'lossless' and are a perfect digital copy of the original source material. Because of this, a FLAC audio file is much larger in size than an MP3 file. While FLAC audio is ideal if you listen to your music on a higher-end home stereo, or enjoy close-listening on headphones, it does not have as widespread playback support as the MP3 format.

*Note: FLAC files do not work in iTunes.

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