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Is this new Destroyer music video about real estate speculation in Vancouver?

Depending on who you ask, real estate has been a spectator sport in Vancouver since 1986 or... well... since forever.

Depending on who you ask, real estate has been a spectator sport in Vancouver since 1986 or... well... since forever. The latest music video from Destroyer (Dan Bejar of the New Pornographers) appears to be getting in on the action, presenting an array of vacant Vancouver homes accompanying the lyrics to the song Girl in a Sling like "It sucks when there's noting but gold in those hills" which we can't help but think is a statement about the market here. Maybe it's just us.

About the video, director David Galloway writes fancifully:

"Bejar sings a lot about cities and girls and injury, sometimes all at the same time. Sometimes they are the same thing, as surreal novelists would have us believe. Besides, people like to see Dan sing – which he doesn't do a lot of in this video, but he does do a little bit. We wanted to make a video that dealt with central Destroyer themes: to some, Destroyer is a lech; to some, he is an arsonist; to some, he is a savior. To me, he is the consummate comedian, but he resists that role. So we decided to go the opposite way and make something sad, something tragic, something that fits the new record. The adage “comedy equals tragedy plus time” is attributed to Carol Burnett's mum. Or it might have been Steve Allen. Either way, I always want Dan to do physical comedy, but he resists. He's a natural, though. He's the Pacific Northwest's Buster Keaton, and I hope one day to share that with the world. One day. For now, though, there's just this sadness. This poison season."

Here it is below. You decide.

The new Destroyer album that this track is on - Poison Season - is out August 28th and is available for pre-order HERE.