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The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Album

Deface the Currency

By The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Deface the Currency; Gestations; 30 Years of Knowing; Rules of the Game; Universal Security; Clutch; Serpent Tongue (Slight Return).

Video

Rules of the Game

Featuring the music of The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
Duration: 04:08
May 10, 2026

The Messthetics are out of this world – truly. They take avant-groove and jazz-punk feels and season them with the musical equivalent of tabasco sauce. Featuring the meaty rhythm section of Brendan Canty and Joe Lally alongside the angular guitar work of Anthony Pirog, the band is joined by tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis on “Rules of the Game.” Here, the Washington, DC band rocks out in the spirit of Medeski, Martin & Wood; Chris Potter; and Jeff Beck (in his Wired period). Add to the full sound the video’s images of driving down the open highway, and you wind up with a satisfying musical experience that you might yearn to recreate in your basement. Read the album review at https://www.allaboutjazz.com/deface-the-currency-the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewis-impulse-records .

Article: Album Review

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis: Deface the Currency

by Kevin Poindexter
April 3, 2026

The distance between the underground rock scene and the genre-bending free jazz movement of the 1960s is shorter than it appears. On their second full-length collaboration, Deface the Currency, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis have managed to erase that distance by uniting the post-punk precision of the Washington D.C hardcore scene with the high-octane energy ...

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I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

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Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

Album

The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis

By Anthony Pirog

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: L'Orso; Emergence; That Thang; Three Sisters; Boatly; The Time Is The Place; Railroad Tracks Home; Asthenia; Fourth Wall.

Article: Album Review

Giovanni Guidi: A New Day

by Chris May
July 7, 2024

There are in effect two albums on this disc by Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi's trio, and whether a listener would prefer to have just one of them will be a matter of personal taste. The duality stems from the presence of guest tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis on four of the seven tracks. ...

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The Messthetics: The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis

by Chris May
June 6, 2024

There are few examples of ranking jazz saxophonists collaborating with rock bands, and even fewer that are as successful as this one featuring tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the instrumental trio The Messthetics. One notable precedent is the partnership of Ethiopian tenor saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya with Dutch punk band The Ex, which exploded into life ...