Protomartyr: Last News

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This week’s guest on The FADER Interview podcast is Protomartyr’s frontman and lyricist, Joe Casey. In advance of the notoriously cynical Detroit post-punk group’s sixth studio LP, Formal Growth in the Desert, due out this Friday (June 2) via Domino, Casey sat down with The FADER’s Raphael Helfand to discuss the project’s surprising optimistic streak and what inspired it.

Protomartyr have announced a 2022 UK and Ireland tour alongside the release of a new visual album.The Detroit rockers released their fifth studio album ‘Ultimate Success Today’ in the summer of 2020, and they’ve now unveiled a visual accompaniment that presents a video for each song on the LP.All of the videos were made during last year’s quarantine (except for ‘Processed By The Boys’) and have been edited together into a seamless short film, with help from filmmakers Dominic Ciccodicola, David Allen, Nathan Faustyn, Joseph Howard (with illustrations by drummer Alex Leonard), Trevor Naud, Ashley Armitage, Yoonha Park, and Jeremy Franchi.You can watch all of the videos below:Protomartyr – comprised of Joe Casey, Greg Ahee, Alex Leonard and

A lot will likely be made of “Processed by the Boys,” the second song from Protomartyr’s fifth full-length album, Ultimate Success Today. There, over anxious guitars and a squirming saxophone, lead singer Joe Casey wonders what form the apocalypse might take: “When the ending comes, is it gonna run at us like a wild-eyed animal? / A foreign disease washed up on the beach? A dagger plunged from out of the shadows?” When he’s done wrestling with Armageddon, his voice dripping with disdain and a clarinet wheezing at his back, he howls about a police state as defined by over-surveillance as it is by sheer brutality.

Protomartyr, who recently opened for Bernie Sanders, have announced their fifth album: The Detroit band returns with Ultimate Success Today, which is out May 29 via Domino. Watch the video for their new song “Processed by the Boys” below. Protomartyr also plan to head out on tour. Check out their schedule below.