The Destroyers return to the fray with their fourth studio album, Argonaut!
To celebrate 20 years of continuous voyage through clubs and festivals in the UK and beyond, The Destroyers have captured a snapshot of their latest adventures on their epic journey. Recording all 12 musicians live, they create the frenzied fervour of a live show, inviting the listener to embark with them on an extraordinary musical expedition through a collection of original songs and tunes, plus traditional melodies. Tunesmiths who inhabit a world where all tongues speak as one, come wielding fiddles and flutes, trumpets, clarinets and accordions; driven by a backline of boundless rhythmic energy, they create music that is both unique and colossal in nature.
“And so, out of the inane cavalcade of Balkan Gypsy sound-alikes comes a blow- your-mind original…Minimum pretence and maximum style.” SONGLINES
About The Destroyers
Unapologetically complex and joyful, The Destroyers have been colliding world musics for nearly 20 years. Their behemothic sound is a chaotic cacophony of klezmer, Balkan and British folk. With twelve truly exceptional musicians from Birmingham their explosive and virtuosic live show needs to be seen to be believed.
Faustian fiddles, whirlwinds of woodwinds, braying brass, raucousness from the rhythm section, and salvos from the sousaphone destroy inhibitions and leave audiences bewildered, transported, beguiled, and wild. These tenacious, travelling troubadours have liberated ears, hearts, and minds at…
The Commonwealth Games - BBC One | Glastonbury | WOMAD | Boomtown Fair | Secret Garden Party | Fire in the Mountain | Shambala | Cambridge Folk Festival | Gate to Southwell | Underneath the Stars | Nozstock Hidden Valley | Knockengorroch | Sidmouth Folk Week | Buskers Bern (SW) | Penabilli (IT) | Waterford Spraoi (IE), and many, many more.
FFO: Golgol Bordello, Balkan Beatbox, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Tankus The Henge, Edward II, Fairport Convention, Sheelanagig, Ara Malikian, The Rin Tins, Bellowhead, 3 Daft Monkeys.
Also featured on Sky Arts TV, and plays on BBC One, BBC Radio 2, 3, and 6 Music.