Protomartyr announce new record Relatives In Descent

The album is the Detroit outfit's first for new label Domino and their fourth in total - it's the follow up to 2015's The Agent Intellect. It was recorded in LA earlier in the spring with co-producer Sonny DiPerri (Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors).

Relatives In Descent is described as a collection of songs that riff on one central theme: "the unknowable nature of truth, and the existential dread that often accompanies that unknowing."

"I used to think that truth was something that existed, that there were certain shared truths, like beauty," explains frontman Joe Casey. "Now that’s being eroded. People have never been more skeptical, and there’s no shared reality. Maybe there never was."

Lead single "A Private Understanding" comes with a video inspired by a recent trip to Ireland by Casey starring Detroit comedian Marty Smith ("an acquaintance of Joe's from his days working the door at a comedy club").

Protomartyr will embark upon a European tour this November, with shows in the UK later in the month - including a date at London's Tufnell Park Dome. Find out more.

Tracklist:

1. A Private Understanding
2. Here Is The Thing
3. My Children
4. Caitriona
5. The Chuckler
6. Windsor Hum
7. Don't Go To Anacita
8. Up The Tower
9. Night-Blooming Cereus
10. Male Plague
11. Corpses In Regalia
12. Half Sister

Relatives In Descent is out 29 September via Domino.