The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!/Anti-/Dischord recording artists from DC, mbrs of Fugazi)instagram.com/themessthetics
jblewis.com
with very special guests
LSD Trio (Linsey Wellman, Scott Warren, David Jackson)
https://lsdtrio.bandcamp.com/
licensed 19+ - 8pm doors
tickets at http://tinyurl.com/4tt6kaeu & Vertigo Records
presented with the support of Ontario Creates and Beyond The Pale
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Brandon Lewis, Anthony Pirog, Joe Lally and Brendan Canty are ready to unveil their first full-length album as a quartet. Recorded in just two days in December 2022 at Takoma Park, Maryland, studio Tonal Park, with engineer Don Godwin. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis features nine tracks that capture the combustive chemistry of their live show while expanding the collaboration in all directions. Across the album, due out on March 15th via the legendary Impulse! label, the quartet can be heard locking into a hard, swaggering funk groove on “That Thang,” cradling a wistful, jazz-like theme on “Asthenia” or rocketing into ecstatic art-punk overdrive on “Emergence.”
The fervor of Lewis’ playing on the record clearly points back to John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, firmly rooting the album in the soil of the classic Impulse! catalog, despite its thoroughly contemporary feel. Lally says he can’t wait to see his band’s name next to the unmistakable orange, white and black Impulse! logo. “Looking at a record and I'm on impulse! with Alice Coltrane?” he adds with giddy disbelief. “It's like being on Otis Redding's label.”
“I’m trying to be cool about it,” Canty says with a laugh of being associated with such a storied catalog. “Hopefully nobody’s going to figure out that I’m the imposter in the temple.”
Thankfully, it’s hard to imagine today’s listeners thinking in those restrictive terms, as the album is arriving at a time when the borders of genre are blurrier than ever. Lewis, for one, relishes the chance to plug into the power of the Messthetics’ punk-adjacent milieu. “I think that’s ultimately why I said yes” to pursuing the full-length, he says. “I love nuanced stuff, but I also like the ability to really just put out some energy. When you hear the Messthetics by themselves, that shit is cranking. And I'm always signing up to crank.”
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The 27 Club Ottawa, 27 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S7, Canada,Ottawa, Ontario
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