Prostitute w/ Special Guests @ HI-FI Indy
General admission, limited seating
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The Detroit rock scene is all MC5 and White Stripes worship, and we don’t fit in with that whatsoever,” says Moe, vocalist and one half of the founding duo behind Dearborn, Michigan noise-rockers Prostitute. The group’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, is a full-spectrum blast of acerbic noise, sampler shrapnel, savagely mordant humour and bruised melancholy located light-years away from rock’n’roll revivalism. Its complexity and simmered rage stomp hard on third rails, conjuring a fever dream of hope, desperation and alienation, a riot of artful profanity, disturbing imagery and blacker-than-midnight wit. An album for these perilous, cursed times, even if it wasn’t conceived as such, Attempted Martyr isn’t noise for its own sake, it’s for everyone’s: a catharsis, a venting, a return of fire. A self-defence.