Pre-order for “Hotel Ursona” by Protomartyr

Hotel Usona is Protomartryr's seventh full-length studio album. Recorded with legendary producer Dave Fridmann (Nick Cave, MGMT, The Flaming Lips) at his own Tarbox Road Studios in western New York, it's 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 it's own troublesome guest: the slow paralysis of modern life ("Sounds We Cannot Hear"), AI ("Feed the Sewer"), deportation ("Third Country"), warped patriotism ("Exalted Eagles"), violence ("The Knife Dream"), even JD Vance ("Converts"). It's a hard look at a nation in free fall, gripped by fascism.Musically, Ahee has built worlds within a world, drawing new influence from the Middle East and '50s exotica, finding common ground between dread and joy, a speciality. All of it-Leonard's drumming in particular-is rendered more tangible and terrifying by Fridmann, whose son, Jon, contributes horns. You can feel the stakes in every song, feel the band levitating to meet them. They've never sounded more powerful.

EXPECTED RELEASE DATE: 9/25/26.

PRE-ORDER DISCLAIMER: Release dates are tentative and often get pushed back or cancelled by the labels. We try 100% to get you what you order, but there are times when we aren’t allotted enough of the item to fill all of the orders (and usually we won’t know this until the week of the release). In this case we will contact you as soon as we are aware that the order can’t be fulfilled. Special limited/indie exclusive releases can be ordered in multiples, but we can’t guarantee that we will be able to fill more than one copy of each said release.

Pre-orders are essentially “special orders”. This means if you place a pre-order, we are ordering it specially for you (many items we have up for pre-order are not items we carry in our store, and those that we do, we are ordering EXTRA copies to fill your pre-orders). Because of this, we cannot do cancellations or refunds after the pre-ordering time period has ended.