Protomartyr have shared “Feed the Sewer,” the second single from their forthcoming seventh album, Hotel Usona, out September 25 via Domino.
The Detroit post-punk band turn their attention to artificial intelligence on the track, pairing Joe Casey’s characteristically bleak, sardonic writing with one of the record’s loudest and most ominous arrangements. Casey describes the song as being about the belief that “people are often willing to destroy the world in exchange for convenience,” adding that the music is “very loud, like a data center.”
“Feed the Sewer” arrives with a video directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia, built around themes of loneliness and surveillance. The motel setting mirrors the larger concept behind Hotel Usona, which imagines the country as an aging hotel with each song occupying a different troubled room.
Recorded with Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios in western New York, Hotel Usona follows lead single “Sounds We Cannot Hear” and arrives September 25 via Domino.
