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.
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