The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Deface The Currency Vinyl LP 2026

1. Deface the Currency
2. Gestations
3. 30 Years of Knowing
4. Rules of the Game
5. Universal Security
6. Clutch
7. Serpent Tongue (Slight Return)

'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 complex unison lines of angular melody and mean waves of improvisation. Like a new music born out of necessity to push further. That energy permeates these tracks, the love of playing together and being together, both on the road and in the studio.