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On April 20, we will reissue Destroyer’s City of Daughters and Thief on CD and Streethawk: A Seduction on CD and LP. All three releases have been remastered and the CDs will feature shiny new packaging.

In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City of Daughters / Thief / Streethawk: A Seduction holds an important place; not only does it document Dan Bejar’s evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also contains a massive percentage of superlative Destroyer “classics.” 1998’s City of Daughters features some of the first steps out of the demo-tapey experimentation of earlier recordings, with songs like “Comments on the World as Will” refining the sound of that stripped-down earlier work, and the seminal “No Cease Fires!” offering us the first taste of just what a full-band Destroyer might conjure. 2000’s Thief naturally went further down that road, and from the opening strums of “The Temple” to the arty quirk of “Queen of Languages” to the gentle, jagged comedown of the title track, it soon became clear that Dan Bejar was master of a singular songcraft—and one who was only just getting started, because the following year brought us Streethawk: A Seduction. And every last inch—and we don’t mean this hyperbolically: EVERY. LAST. INCH.—of Streethawk is a true classic.

City of Daughters, Thief, and Streethawk: A Seduction are available now for preview and pre-order in the Merge store. Pre-order all three of these releases on CD in the Merge store for a special “bundle” price of $29.98 until release date. All pre-orders will ship to arrive on or around the April 20 release date.

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Awesome, thank you! I'll be ordering this on Tuesday then.

From what I can tell this will be a CD/DVD release...anybody see anything about a vinyl release of this?

Thank you!

bump, hoping someone knows...

I'm looking for pressing info for the 1st pressing of This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb's Dance Party With... 10". The record was put out by "Troy from Vancouver" but I haven't been able to find any info about the label (or the man, if it was just Troy, from Vancouver). Thanks in advance for any insights!

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