Album Review
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
4 StarsThe doom may have arrived, but at least Protomartyr are back in our lives.
Cold, wet and miserable. Long nights filled with nothing. Nothing at all. It’s the start of summer and Protomartyr are back with the soundtrack to the apocalypse. With ‘Ultimate Success Today’, Joe Casey and co have served up 10 tracks of heavy, tinnitus-inducing post-punk that has never sounded so relevant. In the past it has felt like the group have been living in a sort of “worst case scenario” alternate universe, but with this, their fifth studio album, the timelines have crossed. The world has caught up with the group’s bleak outlook, and all is not well. The dread-fuelled Nick Cave stomp of ‘Processed By The Boys’ clash with epics like ‘I Am You Now’ and ‘Modern Business Hymns’ to create a record that sounds so much like the deflated “now” that it almost hurts. This is 2020 in pained, reverb dripping sound waves. This is the isolation. This is the pandemic. This is everything. The doom may have arrived, but at least Protomartyr are back in our lives.
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Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
4 Stars
Their balancing act between decay and rebirth, love and hate, takes on an even sharper focus.
31st May 2023, 7:55am
Protomartyr drop new single ‘Elimination Dances’
The Detroit band have also announced new UK tour dates.
27th April 2023, 12:00am
Protomartyr announce new album ‘Formal Growth In The Desert’
Check out lead single ‘Make Way’.
7th March 2023, 12:00am
Protomartyr to premiere ‘Ultimate Success Today’ visual album today
Streaming live via their website at 7pm BST.
15th July 2020, 12:00am
With Bob Vylan, St Vincent, girl in red, Lizzy McAlpine and more.