Scraping By with Protomartyr

Protomartyr’s Joe Casey talks realism and the band’s new album, Relatives in Descent.by Mark LoreJoe Casey has a reputation for being a little surly and fatalistic. This tends to be the focus of articles about his band, Protomartyr—there’s even a Tumblr dedicated to “Descriptions of Joe Casey.” (One entry: “He’s like an inverse Bono.”) To be fair, Protomartyr hails from the gritty rock ’n’ roll capital of Detroit, and Casey’