Ken (stylized in all lowercase) is the eleventh studio album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer, released on October 20, 2017 by Merge Records.

[2] In an interview with SPIN magazine, Bejar stated that recording ken felt like "singing to my teenage self" and was heavily influenced by the bands House of Love, and Church.

[4][5] Bejar characterizes ken as the first record where "a producer swept in," stating that many of the drum machines, minimalist rhythms, and synth patterns on tracks like "Sky's Grey" "came as a surprise to me.

"[4] In a press release for the album, Bejar stated that he was thinking about his experience with music leading up to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of Great Britain while writing ken.

Likening it to the ending of the film "The Seventh Seal," the lyric from "Sky's Grey," “I’ve been working on the new Oliver Twist” is described by Bejar as "a fool’s errand" or "antidote" in the midst of "dreariness and collapse.

[24] In her review for Pitchfork, Amanda Petrusich called the album "Lynchian" and compared Bejar's lyrics to Leonard Cohen on the track "Sky's Grey.