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\"protomartyr-under_the_color\"<\/a>\u201cTreason is crime.\u201d It\u2019s a semi-mantra that stumbles off the tongue of Joe Casey in a very Mark E. Smith\u2013esque slur on \u201cAin\u2019t So Simple,\u201d the second song and mission statement by proxy on Protomartyr’s sophomore record, Under the Color of Official Right<\/i> (Hardly Art). From the outset of “Maidenhead,\u201d it\u2019s sonically apparent that the Detroit quartet have, in an effort to evolve, consciously dumped the green brashness that defined their debut, last year\u2019s No Passion All Technique<\/i>, yet still retain an allegiance to the scrappy, no-collar advances and statements that are ingrained in their Motor City existence. The clack and clang that tethered them closely with comrades like Tyvek has been smothered diagonally. Now, the exhaust burns motley shades of dried blood as Greg Ashee\u2019s visceral guitars transform into clouds of sublime ether.<\/p>\n

Before the album barrels headlong into the primal stomp of \u201cTarpeian Rock,\u201d a song that rallies for traitors to be thrown from the \u201crock,\u201d Protomartyr abandon most things associated with home altogether. Sure, it\u2019s punk in spirit, and \u201cSon of Dis\u201d proves a point, but those minimal riffs seem to inhale and exhale. They actually shimmer like Echo and the Bunnymen or build into hypnotic post-grooves befitting Th’ Faith Healers. Casey and Ashee seem joined at the hip, and it\u2019s their push and pull on the dynamic \u201cScum, Rise\u201d that makes tension a huge part of the record\u2019s arresting catharsis. It\u2019s hard to tell which they prefer, indifference or revolution. Leaving it up to the listener is an ambiguous pleasure in Under the Color of Official Right<\/i>. There are songs here like \u201cI Stare at the Floor\u201d and \u201cTrust Me Billy\u201d that rattle in the same sphere as the ramshackle slacker pop of the \u201990s, but there\u2019s also an almost violent element around the crevices (albeit completely absent from the beautiful trailer park prom\u2013themed \u201cViolent\u201d), coiled to maim. It\u2019s a sound that is near perfect emblem for Detroit. At once they seem to be building up and keeping afloat on the hope and promise of the next more intelligent generation, even when it\u2019s all crumbling down around that beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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