PROSTITUTE RELEASE “ATTEMPTED MARTYR”
VINYL & CD OUT NOW ON MUTE
BUY/STREAM HERE
UK / EUROPEAN TOUR ANNOUNCED
ALL SPRING UK HEADLINE DATES SOLD OUT
NEW LONDON HEADLINER ANNOUNCED FOR AUGUST 26TH AT THE DOME
Prostitute by Steve Gullick
“…they are among the most exciting, unorthodox breakthroughs in recent American rock”
– The Guardian
“A thrillingly relentless experi-punk debut… almost suffocatingly intense songs that churn post-hardcore, noise-rock and metal-tinged punk together with sounds sampled from the Middle East to West Africa.” – Uncut
“…the most impactful parts aren’t its crushing hooks or its relentless punk bacchanal. It’s Moe’s ability to turn the real-life nightmares of his Lebanese family and friends, war-torn realities reduced to the label of “foreign policy” in the U.S., into disturbingly poetic lyrics.” – Pitchfork
“Prostitute are catalysing anger into action.” – CRACK
“Attempted Martyr captures the precarity and anxiety that seems to accompany every aspect of day-to-day life” – The Quietus
“They’re folding in Arabic dance rhythms, hypnotic electronics, and industrial textures, bending percussion and synths into jagged, propulsive forms while retaining that feral intensity.” – So Young
“turning friction and frustration into battle-ready eruptions.” – The Line Of Best Fit
“Incisive post-punk with an almost hardcore-adjacent sense of directness.” – CLASH
“…definitely deserve the buzz that they have been getting as of late” – Anthony Fantano, The Needle Drop
At the tail end of last year, Dearborn, Michigan’s Prostitute
Attempted Martyr, produced by Chris Koltay (The Armed, Mdou Moctar), is released today on two vinyl editions – a special limited Arabic edition on Lebanese sunburst vinyl exclusively through Dinked, and a red vinyl edition – and CD.
After November’s memorable tour of Europe and the UK that included Le Guess Who? and two London shows that sold out in a matter of hours, the five-piece announced a spring 2026 tour of Europe and UK that includes dates at the MOTH Club, London on 28th April & 29th April.
All the spring UK dates are now sold out, with a further London headliner for 26th August at The Dome also very close to selling out.
WATCH “JUDGE (FAST)” VISUALISER HERE
WATCH “ALL HAIL (PRESSURE)” VIDEO HERE
WATCH “MR. DADA” VIDEO HERE
Further UK dates have been added for August and Prostitute will also be at Roadburn Festival on 18th April and the Supersonic Festival on 26th April – full tour details below.
The group’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, has been steadily accruing devoted followers and accolades since its (very limited) original release: Pitchfork and Anthony Fantano reviewed, while Stereogum and The Quietus spoke to the band. Loosely a concept album, Attempted Martyr is a full-spectrum blast of acerbic noise, sampler shrapnel, savagely mordant humour and bruised melancholy. Its complexity and simmered rage conjure 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.
Based in Dearborn, MI, a town with America’s largest Muslim population, Prostitute were founded by Moe (frontman) and Andrew (drummer) who together write the group’s lyrics, and conceived Attempted Martyr’s thematic throughline. Moe explains, “I had an identity crisis, growing up, 9/11 started a lot of xenophobia and Arab hatred and all that kind of shit. I hated being Arabic. I hated Arabs in general, just because people were hating me. Through much of my 20s I felt like, ‘How about I be the character you want me to be?’” Andrew took that crisis and, explains Moe, “ran with it, and made the philosophy behind it, this ‘radical terrorism’, this crazed zealot thing.”
To complete the band, Ross, Bret and Dylan soon came onboard. “It’s all a bit serendipitous,” says Andrew. Each of the members were raised in Dearborn, went to the same schools, orbited the same groups of people and crossed paths before eventually meeting each other and coming together as a band.
The reaction has been incredible: the audience they have found are dedicated to investigating the infinite nuances within their attack, especially as the themes have swung to the fore of the culture in the years since they conceived it. “When we started the album, the war in Gaza hadn’t begun yet,” says Andrew. “But the world was still pretty fucked up. It already felt like the car was going off the cliff, with no-one at the wheel. There’s an angst to the album. I’m not religious, but I’ve always been drawn to art and stories about religion – this yearning for transcendence, for an answer, for forgiveness. The album is about someone trying to transcend in some way. This character is reprehensible. But we’re not trying to tell anyone what to think. This isn’t some manifesto – this is art, it’s an outlet for things we were feeling.”
Attempted Martyr is out now on a special limited Arabic edition on Lebanese sunburst vinyl exclusively through Dinked, a red vinyl edition and CD via Mute.
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ATTEMPTED MARTYR
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All Hail
Judge
M. Dada
Body Meat
Senegal
In the Corner Dunce
Joumana Kayrouz
Harem Induction Hour
PROSTITUTE UK / EUROPEAN TOUR
16 April – Bourges (FR), Printemps de Bourges
17 April – Liège (BE), KulturA
18 April – Tilburg (NL), Roadburn Festival
20 April – Berlin (DE), Urban Spree
21 April – Cologne (DE), Bumann & SOHN
22 April – Antwerp (BE), Trix
23 April – Paris (FR), Petit Bain
24 April – Rennes (FR), Ubu
26 April – Birmingham (UK), Supersonic Festival
27 April – Brighton (UK), Green Door Store – SOLD OUT
28 April – London (UK), Moth Club – SOLD OUT
29 April – London (UK), Moth Club – SOLD OUT
1 May – Manchester (UK), White Hotel – SOLD OUT
2 May – Glasgow (UK), Hug and Pint – SOLD OUT
18 Aug – Brighton (UK), Dust
19 Aug – Newcastle (UK), Lubber Fiend
23 Aug – Ulster (UK), Sports Club
24 Aug – Dublin (IR), Workman’s Club
26 Aug – London (UK), The Dome
