# Protomartyr Announce New Album Hotel Usona, Share “Sounds We Cannot Hear”: Stream

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/protomartyr-announce-new-album-hotel-usona-share-sounds-we-cannot-hear-stream/
- Published: 2026-07-22T14:07:35+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-22T20:12:44+00:00
- Original publisher: Consequence
- Original article: https://consequence.net/2026/07/protomartyr-new-album-hotel-usona/
- Topics: Art, Business, Culture, Entertainment, Markets, Music

## Key points

- Protomartyr announce seventh album Hotel Usona, out 25th September via Domino
- New single "Sounds We Cannot Hear" shared alongside the announcement
- Iggy Pop likens the record to Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

## Summary

Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr have announced their seventh studio album, Hotel Usona, due for release on 25th September via Domino, alongside a new track, "Sounds We Cannot Hear." The nine-track record follows 2023's Formal Growth in the Desert and sees frontman Joe Casey cast contemporary America as a decaying hotel, with each song representing a room haunted by a different troubled guest, continuing the band's habit of confronting collective unease through their music.

The album was recorded with producer Dave Fridmann, known for his work with Sleater-Kinney, MGMT and The Flaming Lips, at his Tarbox Road Studios in western New York, while multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Greg Ahee drew on Middle Eastern music and 1950s exotica to shape its sound. To mark the announcement, fellow Detroit musician Iggy Pop offered an effusive, unconventional endorsement in a written letter, comparing the record's ambitious, theatrical sweep to Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde and praising the band's musicianship.

## Coverage

- [Consequence: Protomartyr Announce New Album Hotel Usona, Share “Sounds We Cannot Hear”: Stream](https://consequence.net/2026/07/protomartyr-new-album-hotel-usona/)
- [Brooklyn Vegan: Protomartyr announce new album, share “Sounds We Cannot Hear” ](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/protomartyr-announce-new-album-share-sounds-we-cannot-hear/)

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