FOIE GRAS, Destroy Boys’ fifth album, feels
like the record the band has been working
toward all along. It’s bigger, stranger, and more
confident than what came before, without
losing the immediacy that got them started.
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.

Roditis and Mayugba formed the band when
they were 15, playing DIY shows around
Sacramento while still in high school. Over
the past decade, Destroy Boys have grown
from those house shows into an international
touring band, opening for Blink-182, Pierce
the Veil, and Rise Against. Their songs have
gotten harder to pin down, too: punk remains
the foundation, but alternative, grunge, pop,
post-punk, Britpop, bossa nova, and jazz all
find their way in.

Produced by Zach Tuch (Knocked Loose,
Touché Amoré), with additional contributions
from Frank Iero, FOIE GRAS pushes that
restlessness further. It’s the sound of a band
finally giving itself permission to follow its
instincts, no matter the risk—and, in the
process, making its best record yet.