Protomartyr, The Agent Intellect

Released 2015 on Hardly Art                       

Grade: A 

Recommended tracks – 1, 3, 8, 9, 10      

Review by Marie                  

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Third album from these post-punks from Detroit, MI! Protomartyr has really lovely driving sound, moving between moody & haunting to poppy & sweet vibes with ease. Lyrics are poetic and have a lot of references to Detroit specific things. The album is “named after an ancient philosophical questioning of how the mind operates in relation to the self” – Protomartyr bandcamp.

1. ****

2. “I’m goin out in style”

3. ***** fun & neat song. Bouncy

4. ***

5. A song referencing the Pope’s visit to Detroit in 1987

6. ****

7. ***“the dope cloud that’s descending on this town is blowing gold dust into the pockets of the undeserving”

8. **** spoken word intro. yelly

9.  **** haunting with nice vocals, becomes poppy and sweet and then back to spooky

10. ***** groovy, dynamic, haunting. Why does it shake!!!!

11. song for the lead singer Joe Casey’s mom who has Alzheimer’s.

12. feast of Stephen, yea!