Detroit post-punk four-piece Protomartyr have just announced their new release Consolation E.P. As the follow-up to their 2017 full-length album Relatives In Descent, this four-song EP features two tracks with Kelley Deal of the Breeders, whose first album in 10 years All Nerve dropped this past March. And like All Nerve, it was engineered by Deal’s R. Ring bandmate Mike Montgomery.
The video for the Deal-featured track “Wheel Of Fortune” is out today, and it’s five minutes of confusing chaos that I can’t turn away from. Directed by Yoonha Park, who handled the band’s also-strange “Don’t Go To Anacita” video, “Wheel Of Fortune” is an amalgamation of bleak, violent imagery paired with an equally jagged, experimental sound. A pulsing skull, a charging, electrified sword, a girl coloring in her entire face with cherry red lipstick, roughly scrapping your knuckle against a brick wall, punching yourself in the face, giving a thumbs up while your hand is on fire flash; these visuals grace the screen all while frontman Joe Casey and Deal repeatedly shout the lyrics “I decide who lives and who dies.” It’s a lot to handle, but aesthetically exciting.
The general vibe is spooky Halloween apocalypse. There’s a solace brought on as the video switches to black and white. The music slows and a hypnotic groove ensues. Though, all that is ended quickly by the chanting of “Hands around their own throats.” Creepy! Listen and watch below.
TRACKLIST:
- 01 “Wait”
- 02 “Same Face In A Different Mirror”
- 03 “Wheel Of Fortune” (Feat. Kelley Deal)
- 04 “You Win Again” (Feat. Kelley Deal)
TOUR DATES
- 05/03 – Kortrijik, BE @ De Kreun
- 05/04 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
- 05/05 – Leicester, UK @ Handmade Festival
- 05/06 – Glasgow, UK @ Stag & Dagger Festival
- 05/08 – Hull, UK @ Fruit
- 05/09 – Birmingham, UK @ Mama Roux
- 05/10 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East – In Conversation with the Raincoats
- 05/10 – London, UK @ Scala
- 06/03 – Seattle, WA @ Upstream Music Festival
- 06/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere (Brooklyn Vegan Northside Party)
- 06/13 – Hong Kong, HK @ MOM Livehouse
- 06/15 – Beijing, CN @ Yue Space
- 06/16 – Shanghai, CN @ YYT
- 06/17 – Seoul, KR @ V-Hall
- 06/20 – Kuala Lumpur, MY @ Live Fact
- 06/21 – Jakarta, ID @ Rossi Musik
- 06/23 – Athens, GR @ Ejekt Festival
- 07/06 – Modena, IT @ Arti Vive
- 07/07 – Chiusi, IT @ Lars Rock Fest
- 07/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest
- 08/11 – Haldern, DE @ Haldern Pop Festival
- 08/12 – Luxembourg, LU @ Rotondes
- 08/13 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Zakk
- 08/14 – Bremen, DE @ Tower Musikclub
- 08/16 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
- 08/17 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
- 08/18 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
- 08/19 – St. Malo, FR @ La Route Du Rock
- 08/21 – Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
- 08/22 – Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
- 08/24 – Schorndorf, DE @ Club Manufaktur
- 08/25 – Charleville Mezieres, FR @ Cabaret Vert Festival
- 08/26 – Ramsgate, UK @ Ramsgate Hall
- 08/28 – Sheffield, UK @ Picture House Social
- 08/29 – Hebden Bridge, UK @ Trades Club
- 08/30 – Liverpool, UK @ O2 Academy 2
- 08/31 – Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival
- 08/30 – 09/02 – Vlieland, NL @ Into the Great Wide Open
Consolation E.P. is out 6/15 via Domino.
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