PROTOMARTYR - UNDER COLOR OF OFFICIAL RIGHT Vinyl LP Relapse Records and the band’s first for

and the band’s first for Hardly Art

"Goodbye" or the original version of "Slalom d 'a Mort"

rapping in the seminal independent hip-hop group

set atop equally pulverizing bass and drums

PROTOMARTYR - UNDER COLOR OF OFFICIAL RIGHT Vinyl LP Relapse Records and the band’s first forProtomartyrs taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off kilter, and economical in a way that elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek all of which have combined