Prostitute – All Hail (Pressure)
Dearborn, Michigan band Prostitute shares a live video for “All Hail (Pressure)”, filmed at The Windmill in Brixton during their November 2025 UK/EU tour. The track opens their debut album “Attempted Martyr”, getting its first worldwide release on March 13th via Mute Records.
Chris Koltay (The Armed, Mdou Moctar) produced the album, which the band originally released in limited quantities before signing to Mute in December. Pitchfork, The Quietus, and The Line Of Best Fit have praised the record’s incisive post-punk sound.
“All Hail (Pressure)” sets the tone for an album dealing with heavy themes. Frontman Moe and drummer Andrew write the lyrics together, working from Moe’s experiences growing up in Dearborn, a city with America’s largest Muslim population. Moe explains he had an identity crisis after 9/11 started waves of xenophobia and Arab hatred. “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 created the philosophical framework behind the album’s “radical terrorism” and “crazed zealot” character. The album exists as a full-spectrum blast of acerbic noise, sampler shrapnel, mordant humour, and melancholy. Its complexity and rage conjure anxiety and alienation, using artful profanity and disturbing imagery with black humour.
The band comprises Moe (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Andrew (drums), Dylan (bass), Ross (guitars), and Bret. All were raised in Dearborn, attended the same schools, and orbited the same groups before eventually forming Prostitute. Chris Koltay engineered and mixed with Cameron Frank assisting. Warren Defever mastered.
Andrew notes that when they started recording the album, the war in Gaza hadn’t yet begun. “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.” He describes the album as exploring someone trying to transcend, emphasising they’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.”
Prostitute’s spring 2026 European and UK tour includes two shows at London’s MOTH Club on April 28-29 (all UK dates sold out), plus appearances at Roadburn Festival (April 18) and Supersonic Festival (April 26).
Europe:
- April 18 – Roadburn Festival
- April 26 – Supersonic Festival
- April 28 – London, UK @ MOTH Club (SOLD OUT)
- April 29 – London, UK @ MOTH Club (SOLD OUT)
