Protomartyr | Consolation E.P. | CD

Personnel: Kelley Deal (vocals); Greg Ahee (guitar, piano, synthesizer); Jocelyn Hach (viola); Lori Goldston (cello); Evan Ziporyn (bass clarinet); Scott Davidson (bass guitar); Alex Leonard (drums).Audio Mixer: Mike Montgomery.Recording information: Candyland, Dayton, KY (05/10/2017-05/11/2017).Photographer: Davidde Stella.Arrangers: Kelley Deal; Mike Montgomery.Protomartyr'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 band going from strength to strength and eager to experiment. The group recorded two of the songs with Kelley Deal guesting, and her vocals add to the dramatic force of the stunning