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You can check out but you’ll never leave the Detroit post-punks’ new concept album, which grimly parodies the United States’ ugliest realities as odious guests at a cursed hotel.
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You can check out but you’ll never leave the Detroit post-punks’ new concept album, which grimly parodies the United States’ ugliest realities as odious guests at a cursed hotel.
Detroit-based Protomartyr are no stranger to the bleak depiction.
Protomartyr’s seventh album Hotel Usona (short for United States of North America) creates a fitting soundtrack as the country is pummeled by bad reviews.
The prolific songwriter goes back to the garage, revisiting the primal sound of his early work with the tighter craftsmanship he’s developed over the past decade.
Those embarking on discourse around the ‘grunge revival’ movement have skipped over a few key figures, ones who were channeling this nineties-style distortion and aesthetics a number of years ago.
The L.A.
The Linda Lindas are the embodiment of a dream we’ve all shared at one time or another.
The songs may be familiar to diehards, but on a long-awaited collection of early Alex Chilton recordings they appear in their most primordial form, just sprouting legs and walking on land.