A friendly radio shower PSA: Protomartyr is streaming their album over at NPR, and it’s pretty goddamned good. “I Forgive You” is a track that stood out on first listen, so have yourself a listen above.
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Detroit’s Protomartyr are returning on 10/9 with The Agent Intellect. Judging by this song, it seems like they’re amenable to stretching out their scrappy post-punk into longer, bleaker dirges.
Jim already posted “You Disappear”, the first single from La Luz’s upcoming Ty Segall produced album, and the band just let another song leak from Weirdo Shrine. I’ll let frontwoman Shana Cleveland get real with you for a moment:
That song is about when you lose somebody. A friend of mine died in Michigan, that I was close to when I was in high school. I was thinking about how when someone dies the world is almost physically changed because they’re not giving back to it and their breath isn’t in the atmosphere. That’s the lyrical meaning of the song, for me. But there’s also a lot of breath in the song. The first line is, “I don’t wanna be anywhere, you have not breathed the air.” A lot of that song is also just like breathing, all four of us breathing, all the aaahs and ooohs and stuff.
Featuring special guest Macklemore!
Tune into the show tonight, as there’s a special substitute-Jim coming in to play some of his favorite soundtrack music. I’ll also be there playing whatever’s caught my ear this week. Normal time and place, 9PM til midnight on 88.3FM if you’re in the city, or streaming at www.wrct.org anywhere else in the world.