Protomartyr- Under Color of Official Right
Protomartyr's taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter, and economical in a way that elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek -- all of which have combined here to make one stunner of a sophomore album, and the band's first for Hardly Art.
Tracklist:
- Maidenhead
- Ain't So Simple
- Want Remover
- Trust Me Billy
- Pagans
- What the Wall Said
- Tarpeian Rock
- Bad Advice
- Son of Dis
- Scum, Rise!
- I Stare at Floors
- Come & See
- Violent
- I'll Take That Applause
Protomartyr's taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter, and economical in a way that elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek -- all of which have combined here to make one stunner of a sophomore album, and the band's first for Hardly Art.
Tracklist:
- Maidenhead
- Ain't So Simple
- Want Remover
- Trust Me Billy
- Pagans
- What the Wall Said
- Tarpeian Rock
- Bad Advice
- Son of Dis
- Scum, Rise!
- I Stare at Floors
- Come & See
- Violent
- I'll Take That Applause