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- Record Label: Impulse!
- Release Date: Feb 27, 2026
- Summary: The second full-length release from the collaboration between The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis was recorded by Don Godwin.
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- Record Label: Impulse!
- Genre(s): Jazz
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UncutMar 30, 2026Confirms Lewis's now crucial role in their pummelling yet emotional propulsion. [May 2026, p.33]
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Mar 5, 2026Deface the Currency is gloriously intense and raucous, as avant funk, explosive jazz, free improv, psychedelia, and post-punk chaos meet in hallucinatory joy.
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Mar 5, 2026The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis are making fearless and unsmooth fusion again—updated and refreshed with the clarity and dynamism of the “post-hardcore” music that wasn’t around in the 1970s. It works, and it displays power and intelligence in equal measure.
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Mar 5, 2026The shifts within and between tracks lend Deface the Currency a sense of perpetual surprise: Even after its contours become familiar, the particulars of the improvisation remain lively and kinetic.
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Mar 5, 2026The combination of the two brings here some intriguing music that those wanting their musical genres strictly defined will hate, and those with a more daring minds wanting to explore will love.
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Apr 1, 2026Yes, there are Sharrock-like guitar explosions aplenty from Pirog on some of the tracks, but there are also quieter, more introspective passages aplenty as well.