Wednesday 29th August
Protomartyr
£10/£12 [+10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm – limited tickets available on the door
After a year of extensive touring in support of 2015’s The Agent Intellect, Protomartyr returned to their practice space in a former optician’s office in Southwest Detroit. Guitarist Greg Ahee—inspired by The Raincoats’ Odyshape, Mica Levi’s orchestral compositions, and Protomartyr’s recent collaboration with post-punk legends The Pop Group, for Rough Trade’s 40th anniversary—began writing new music that artfully expanded on everything they’d recorded up until that point. The result is Relatives in Descent, their fourth full-length and Domino debut. Though not a concept album, it presents twelve variations on a theme: the unknowable nature of truth, and the existential dread that often accompanies that unknowing. This, at a moment when disinformation and garbled newspeak have become a daily reality.
‘I used to think that truth was something that existed, that there were certain shared truths, like beauty,’ says singer Joe Casey. ‘Now that’s being eroded. People have never been more skeptical, and there’s no shared reality. Maybe there never was.’
This event is fully booked.