Relatives In Descent
Domino
2017
Rating: 8.5 valuable autographed footballs out of 10
Another hot-shit slab of professor punk from Protomartyr, everyone’s favorite Detroit band this side of classic Motown. This is their most mature/best produced/insert euphemism for “they added strings to some of the songs” record to date, and thankfully that didn’t ruin it like it so often does with a lot of bands getting access to that big label money for the first time. Side note: is Domino even a big label? I’ve always thought so, but opinions may differ. Surely though they have more money to throw at recordings than Hardly Art does. But Hardly Art is backed by Sup Pop so maybe I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
Anyways - the broad view here as it has always been with Protomartyr is the Fall meets Fugazi meets Nick Cave, but they have definitely crafted this sound of theirs into its own animal. Moreover, the musicianship has gotten SO GOOD, which you really notice if you give this a peep through headphones. The lyrics still sound like passages from a grad school reading list aka way too smart for me, but at this point it would be weird if I wasn’t confused about what Joe Casey was going on about.
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