Relatives in descent

"A slow-burn apocalypse of ennui and injustice crackles through the sensational fourth album from these Detroit post-punks. Singer Joe Casey's captivating voice is variously reminiscent of Nick Cave at his most brow-furrowed, talky punks such as Parquet Courts, or a more animatedly pissed-off Matt Berninger of the National; on the anti-patriarchal Male Plague, he even adopts the doltish musicality of Donald Trump's public speeches".

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"Nearly a decade after it first formed, Protomartyr is back with its fourth album of snarling, tightly wound post-punk. Relatives in Descent builds on what the band has been doing since its 2012 debut No Passion All Technique, with Casey turning his loathing outward, and his band sounding bigger and better than ever".

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"The fourth album from the literary Detroit rock band Protomartyr is sinuous and allusive, dense and at times dizzying. It contains a constant sense of unease about the world and its future ... When it works, it's brilliant as ever; when it doesn't, it can feel unknowable, disjointed, a series of red herrings taking the approximate shape of a song".

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