Sacramento punks Destroy Boys have announced their fourth album, Funeral Soundtrack #4, due August 9 via Hopeless Records. The album was produced by Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, etc), and it includes a song that features both Mannequin Pussy and Scowl (“You Hear Yes”). Pre-orders are up now, and we’ve got an exclusive red & gold split vinyl variant, limited to 500. Pre-order yours in the BV shop while they last and check out a mock-up below.
Note: there was a glitch with the pre-order when we launched on Thursday but it is WORKING NOW!
Destroy Boys had already released three of the album’s songs–“Plucked,” “Beg For The Torture,” and “Shadow (I’m Breaking Down)”–and today they’ve shared a fourth single, “Boyfeel,” which closes the album. It’s a slow-burning, brooding song that vocalist/guitarist Alexia Roditis began writing in 2017 at age 17 about their journey with gender nonconformity, and it comes with Tay Allard-directed video that explores those same themes. Check it out below.
As guitarist Violet Mayugba explains, the album got its title because, “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.”
Here’s the tracklist, album artwork, tour dates, videos for all four singles, and mock-up of our red & gold vinyl…
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
