Right now, if you live in North America, you’re probably thinking warm thoughts in a desperate effort to ward off the cold. Music festivals, for example, usually take place in favorable (read: warm) conditions, so we might as well look ahead to the 2018 Governors Ball, the lineup for which has just been announced.

Having fallen in love with Destroyer after hearing the soaring guitar-based melodies and shimmering atmospherics of 2006’s still-excellent Destroyer’s Rubies, I was initially put off when Dan Bejar and his band starting drifting into the corny adult-contemporary sheen of Kaputt. But the more I listened, the more I…