My Mystery (12")

Late last year, Destroyer released Poison Season-a treasure trove of mid-'70s Bowie-esque thumpers, string-laden laments and E Street horns-to universal acclaim, following it up with a mammoth 8-piece band tour around North America and Europe. Recorded in the same sessions as Poison Season, the song "My Mystery" was a huge favourite yet somehow felt like it didn't quite fit on the album.

Destroyer has this to say: "We recorded a song called "My Mystery" a year and a half ago. Kind of a light number, vaguely danceable. Wistful, looking back not unfondly on time spent and dull misadventures had within the dead-as-a-doornail music industry. And the feeling of where it leaves you, like a rat in the middle of the ocean, though not as harsh as that; as if rats could swim an ocean's length."