Protomartyr - Consolation E.P. Jazzy Hip-Hop From a Room

From a Room

the set segues into an urgent judgment-day scenario with squealing strings and a resounding bassline as Lamar confronts mortality and extinction with urgent exasperation

The Velvet Underground also mapped out unconquered sonic territories

while Greg Ahee's guitar is gnarly and thoughtful at once

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Protomartyr - Consolation E.P. Jazzy Hip-Hop From a RoomProtomartyr's fourth full length album, Relatives in Descent, was one of the finest releases of 2017, a powerful and forbidding marriage of dynamic guitar based rock and impassioned beat inspired lyrics that painted a vivid portrait of a chaotic world. The album pointed to any number of directions Protomartyr could go in the future, and though 2018's Consolation is a stopgap four song EP and not the group's next major statement, it still shows this