Kyle Whelliston writesCHIRP Radio Welcomes Destroyer to The Old Town School of Folk Music on Thursday November 7!

Please join CHIRP in welcoming Destroyer, a/k/a the 17-year musical project of Vancouver-based Dan Bejar, to the Old Town School of Folk Music's intimate Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall. It's a special solo acoustic show scheduled for Thursday, November 7 at 8 pm. Iranian-American experimental musician Azita, also a voice and piano teacher at Old Town School, will open the show as a special guest.

Before announcing this 12-city tour, Mr. Bejar announced that this would be the last time Destroyer would play live until at least 2015. This is, at least in some part, due to commitments related to a forthcoming album by The New Pornographers, the CHIRP-beloved supergroup in which he shares vocal duties with A.C. Newman, Kathryn Calder and Neko Case. If the audience is supernaturally kind enough, he might add N.P. cult classics like "Silver Jenny Dollar" or "Jackie, Dressed In Cobras" to the set list... but honestly, he's more likely to play "Barricades in the Morning", the unwritten song-with-in-a-song referenced in 2004's "Notorious Lightning."

Destroyer has nine albums of lithe and languid indie pop songs to draw from, including 2011's well-received LP Kaputt. His songs are full of lyrical content bordering on baroque literature that once inspired an intricate drinking game. Perhaps this concert will offer new insights on cryptic lyrics like "I begged the merchants/'Please serve a purpose other than treason!'" ("Death On The Festival Circuit", 2000) or "Distinguished colleagues, dead music-writers' brides/I apologize." ("Your Blood", 2004). But don't count on that either.

Instead, enjoy an evening with one of the most ambitiously literate songwriters active today. Mr. Bejar will release a five-song EP called Five Spanish Songs November 29 on Merge Records that promises to be exactly what the cover says. ("The English language seemed spent, despicable, not easily singable," he said in a press release preceding the record. "It felt over for English; good for business transactions, but that's about it.") Tickets for this special (multilingual?) concert experience are $20 for Old Town School members and $22 for the general public; the show is sold out, but tickets may become available as the show approaches.