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About Destroy Boys:
Destroy Boys’ fifth album FOIE GRAS was built out of a series of risks that ultimately produced the band’s most cohesive, ambitious, and best work yet. Those risks began with the title. Alexia Roditis (vocals/guitar), Violet Mayugba (backing vocals, guitar), Narsai Malik (drums), and David Orozco (bass) landed on FOIE GRAS while touring Europe, passing names around with the same openness that defined the making of the record. Eventually, Orozco suggested the name of the dish produced by force-feeding ducks until their livers swell. The metaphor was a gamble; so was the album. “Everything we did on this record are things that made us uncomfortable in the beginning,” Mayugba says. “Like, is this too poppy, or is this too weird?” Roditis adds.
The title came to encompass the record’s larger preoccupation with all the things being force-fed to us today—disinformation, screens, consumerism, the grind, political narratives, the expectation that we accept an increasingly untenable world as normal—and the possibility of refusing to comply. “You’re either the duck or the tube,” Mayugba explains.
Formed by Roditis and Mayugba when they were 15, Destroy Boys have spent the past decade turning their coming-of-age and growing political consciousness into whip-smart, punk-adjacent songs, while massively expanding the possibilities of the genre. They quickly gained a local following at DIY shows in Sacramento while they were still in high school, then expanded from house shows across the West Coast to an international audience through increasingly assured records and relentless touring, including support slots for Blink-182, Pierce the Veil, and Rise Against.
