Protomartyr live in London (Adam Hampton-Matthews)
Protomartyr played the Electric Ballroom on October 26th.
Protomartyr have a lengthy European tour ahead of them and will be on the road through to mid-November in support of the spring release of their Formal Growth In The Desert album – ‘a career best’ according to Live4ever:
“Casey’s foil Greg Ahee has extended the musical patina to include acoustic and pedal steel guitars, the presence of which is as keenly “felt as anywhere on opener Make Way, the result a kind of shattered, haunted country punk that will confront some longer established fans’ views of who and what they are as an entity.”
Letting light in then? Well, yes – and no. The feeling is as intense, almost claustrophobic, as ever on Elimination Dances, the chopped guitar phrases squared with lyrics about human disposability, and Fun In Hi Skool, the trademark bellow skewering the false construct of an existence having peaked before it should have even begun.
