Overview
- Deface the Currency is due February 20 via Impulse! Records.
- Lead single Gestations arrived with a video co-directed by Brendan Canty and Robin Bell.
- A North American tour runs April 17 to May 9 with stops including Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
- Press materials credit the new music to the quartet’s intensive year of performing together, with James Brandon Lewis emphasizing a deeper rapport and urgency.
- The lineup pairs The Messthetics—Joe Lally, Brendan Canty, and Anthony Pirog—with saxophonist James Brandon Lewis.