Destroy Boys

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. 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 grunge, pop, post-punk, Britpop, bossa nova, and jazz all find their way in. Produced by Zach Tuch, 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.