Album
Formal Growth In The Desert
2023 · Rock
8 collectors on Gatefold own this
Formal Growth In The Desert is an Alt/Indie album by Protomartyr, originally released in 2023. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked, owned by 8 collectors.
About
Protomartyr’s slurred ramblings and miasmic clouds of guitar have always had a touch of the apocalypse in them, or at least of the decay that might lead there. The paradox is how the Detroit band manages to make that decay sound so grand. New Wave rippers (“For Tomorrow”) and leather-jacket music (“Fun in Hi Skool”), ’50s slow dances (“Make Way”) and jock jams for the recently undead (“Polacrilex Kid”): Where some post-punk bands lean into their artiness and Eurocentrism, Protomartyr sound like Midwesterners raised on arena rock and the looming intensity of Bible stories. “Welcome to the haunted earth/The living afterlife,” Joe Casey moans at the album's onset. He’s grinding his teeth under the bleachers as we speak.
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Make Way
- A2For Tomorrow
- A3Elimination Dances
- A4Fun In Hi Skool
- A5Let's Tip The Creator
- A6Graft Vs. Host
Side B
- B13800 Tigers
- B2Polacrilex Kid
- B3Fulfillment Center
- B4We Know The Rats
- B5The Author
- B6Rain Garden
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Post-Punk
- angular
- defiant
- desert
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Alex LeonardBAND, DRUMS DRUMS
- Bill RadcliffePEDAL STEEL GUITAR
- Greg AheeBAND, GUITAR, SYNTH GUITAR, SYNTH
- Joe CaseyBAND, VOCALS VOCALS
- Scott DavidsonBAND, BASS GUITAR BASS BASS GUITAR
8 collectors on Gatefold own this · 6 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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