Protomartyr - Hotel Usona (Exclusive Gold Vinyl)

• Available September 25th, 2026.
• Ship orders including this title will be held back.

Recorded with legendary producer Dave Fridmann at his own Tarbox Road Studios in western New York, Hotel Usona—Protomartyr's seventh full-length studio album—is an effort that finds the Detroit post-punk outfit reckoning with the horrors of our current moment. It is not easy listening. It's essential.

Over the last two decades, Protomartyr—vocalist Joe Casey, drummer Alex Leonard, bassist Scott Davidson, guitarist-multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Greg Ahee—have built one of the most rewarding and often exhilarating bodies of work in recent memory by veering in and out of darkness, grappling with what most frightens us, saddens us, disgusts us, embarrasses and enrages us. The stuff that makes us human.

Casey has imagined his country as an aging hotel here, each song a room haunted by its own troublesome guest: the slow paralysis of modern life such as on "Sounds We Cannot Hear", AI on "Feed the Sewer", deportation on "Third Country", warped patriotism on "Exalted Eagles", violence on "The Knife Dream", JD Vance on "Converts", and the often unbearable weight of becoming a father anyway on "Checking Out". It's a hard look at a nation in free fall, gripped by fascism.

Exclusive GOLD vinyl produced by Domino Record Co. in 2026.

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Old Hotel
2. Sounds We Cannot Hear
3. Converts
4. Exalted Eagles
5. The Knife Dream
6. Feed the Sewer
7. Lavender – Gospel
8. Third Country
9. Checking Out