Overview
- The band announced on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 that Hotel Usona will be released Sept. 25 via Domino, marking Protomartyr’s first full‑length since 2022.
- They issued the lead single “Sounds We Cannot Hear” the same day, accompanied by a hibachi‑restaurant video directed by Danny Scharar and Harris Mayersohn and starring Nate Varrone.
- Hotel Usona was recorded with producer Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios, with Fridmann and his son Jon contributing expanded horn and arrangement parts.
- Musically the record broadens Protomartyr’s palette with horns, tubular bells, xylophone and influences drawn from Middle Eastern music and 1950s exotica while Joe Casey frames the album as rooms in a crumbling American hotel.
- The band will support the release with a multi‑leg North American, U.K. and European tour beginning Oct. 19, including a Nov. 12 New York show at Webster Hall and an Oct. 31 support slot with the Jesus and Mary Chain in Austin.