Popcast: Joe Casey of Protomartyr

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Ben Ratliff chats with Mr. Casey about the lyrics on the band’s album and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your outer drive of music news and critical opinion.
0:16.0	I'm your host Ben Ratley. This week a special edition of Popcast in which we focus on the law
0:25.2	my bank that's not going to save the man.
0:30.9	This week a special edition of Popcast in which we focus on lyrics. Not the music, just the words.
0:38.0	Our guest is the singer and writer of some of the finer lyrics recorded in 2015.
0:44.4	Joe Casey from the Detroit band Proto Martyr.
0:48.0	Joe Casey stopped by the popcast studio earlier this year
0:51.6	when Proto Martyr was on tour supporting its new record the
0:55.1	agent intellect hope you enjoy it. I have here in the studio with us Joe Casey the
1:02.2	singer of Proto Martyr.
1:04.0	And he's here to talk about lyrics.
1:07.0	You just heard a bit of the song Dope Cloud
1:11.0	from Proto Martyr's new record, Agent Intelect.
1:15.0	Well, which is an excellent record.
1:18.0	Thank you.
1:19.0	And one that it's troublesome.
1:22.0	Okay. It's like a series of warnings.
1:25.0	All right. It makes me feel kind of funny.
1:27.0	Okay.
1:28.0	I don't know if that was what we were going for, but I'll take it.
1:31.0	It puts me on edge a little bit as does mostly
1:36.4	everything I know by pro-to-martyr. But there's something more and more people are
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