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PROTOMARTYR


He wasn’t exactly depressed before he formed Protomartyr, frontman Joe Casey says, but he didn’t have a lot to look forward to, either. Eight years later, he’s 40, and his band is ready to release its fourth LP,

Relatives in Descent

, its first on Domino. “[The band has] worked parts of my brain that I had kind

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