THE MESSTHETICS AND JAMES BRANDON LEWIS - Deface The Currency Acid Breaks keys and live hand-drumming

keys and live hand-drumming

the end of an era

"A legend the likes of which don't seem to be written much any more

Axelrod-esque guitar and bass

They continued with the EPs Cadonia in 2022 and SPIT in 2024

THE MESSTHETICS AND JAMES BRANDON LEWIS - Deface The Currency Acid Breaks keys and live hand-drummingCD Deface the Currency is the second collaboration between The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. Recorded immediately upon return from a joyous European tour, engineer Don Godwin captured the sound of what the forge of 150 shows in a year can do to a band. It is quite simply a huge change. In energy, in writing, in sound. The band has become a unit designed to destroy on stage, and this record is expansive, ambitious, and spontaneous. Full of