Protomartyr asks the question: Is everyone in Denver so high, they just say what they think?
Casey recalls a moment from the band's last time in Denver, when it played the Bluebird Theater in 2018. “I was outside smoking after the show, and someone said I looked like, at that point, the future governor [Jared Polis]. I remember saying, 'You have to be careful with this, because when you say someone looks like somebody, I don’t know what this guy looks like, but if I look at this person and he’s ugly, I’m going to think you’re insulting me,’” Casey says.
Over Protomartyr’s six studio albums, Casey has established himself as a prolific and critically acclaimed lyricist. He has often been saddled with the title of"punk poet," but being called a poet is not something he's completely comfortable with. “I don’t consider myself a poet, because I don’t know the craft very well — and I think there are people actually very good at it,” says Casey. “Some of my friends from college are honest-to-goodness published poets, so I’d hate to be like, ‘I’m a poet, too.’ I like petting animals, but that doesn’t make me a veterinarian.”
One of the most fascinating things about Protomartyr is its association with its hometown of Detroit, and the connection audiences and critics have made between Protomartyr’s hard-edged, contemplative sound and the perception that Detroit is a city in decay. It's an easy connection to make for audiences with a fascination with the city that was once the industrial backbone of America.
“I knew early on that people were fascinated by Detroit in the right way because of the music that comes out of it. Better music than it should comes out of Detroit,” says Casey. “And they’re also fascinated because it’s a symbol of America in a lot of ways. As goes Detroit, goes America, and I still feel that. A lot of the things Detroit deals with and has dealt with, everyone’s going to be affected by.
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