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The group’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, is a full-spectrum blast of acerbic noise, sampler shrapnel, savagely mordant humour and bruised melancholy located light-years away from rock’n’roll revivalism. Its complexity and simmered rage stomp hard on third rails, conjuring 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. A self-defence. “I had an identity crisis, growing up,” says Moe, “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, ran with it, and made the philosophy behind it, this ‘radical terrorism’, this crazed zealot thing.” Andrew is the other half of Prostitute’s founding duo, drummer and co-writer of the group’s lyrics, co-conceiver of Attempted Martyr’s thematic throughline. They’d known each other for years before making music together. “Moe was always pressing me to start a band,” says Andrew. “Then, in late 2019, he sat me and our friend Dylan down and said, ‘Listen, we’re all working jobs we hate or are going to school.

When are we going to this band thing? If not now, when?

It’s never going to happen.’ Then COVID hit and we had all the time in the world. We hunkered down in my mom’s basement, the three of us, and hammered out most of the album.” “The embryonic version of the band was pretty bad, to be honest,” he continues, “just standard noise-rock/post-punk.

Then one day Moe came to the basement with 10 or 15 tracks that were just an arrangement or a sample looped over and over. He played them to me: ‘Pick a few you want to work on’.” Prostitute took decisive shape, drawing on their shared love for literature, for horror, for extreme music, for beauty, for noise.

They drew the Arabic elements of their sound further to the surface as the group’s line-up was fleshed out. Looking for a way to incorporate more guitar without falling into hackneyed rock tropes, they welcomed aboard Ross, who’d been playing guitar in a jazz/funk group in Hamtramck, a Detroit enclave with the US’s only Muslim majority population.

Ross and his bandmate Bret stepped aboard, and quickly became key members of Prostitute. “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.

Once they located the concept for the album, Prostitute’s identity fell quickly into place. “We’re taking this maligned character, these stereotypes, and embracing