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The Messthetics is the debut album by the band of the same name, featuring bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty of Fugazi along with guitarist Anthony Pirog, best known for his association with the band Skysaw and the duo Janel & Anthony. Recorded by Canty at his practice space in Washington, D.C. during 2017, it was released on March 23, 2018, by Dischord Records. The album marked the first time Canty and Lally had recorded together since Fugazi's 2001 release The Argument. Regarding the duo's decision to team up with Pirog, Canty stated that he was attracted to the fact that Pirog "was playing really wildly different things in every situation," and noted that the guitarist's introduction of fast, odd-metered material felt "like catching baseballs in a batting cage." The album was recorded in such a way as to preserve the raw feel and sound of the group's early jam sessions; Canty commented: "Often in the past, the initial inspiration for a piece of music gets forgotten by the time you get around to properly recording it. Having all the mics set up and recording during our practices seems to solve that problem." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mes...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)