Protomartyr: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

December 4, 2015 by ROBIN HILTON The Detroit band Protomartyr makes loud, screeching rock that s more thoughtful than thrilling. It only takes a few seconds of the group s brightly lit Tiny Desk performance for things to get pretty deep: False happiness is on the rise, enigmatic frontman Joe Casey deadpans. See the victims piled high in a room without a The song Why Does It Shake is from the band s profound, poetic, often grousing third album The Agent Intellect, a title derived from Aristotle