{"id":2447490,"date":"2019-08-13T09:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=870527"},"modified":"2019-08-13T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:51:45","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-the-messthetics-better-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-the-messthetics-better-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: The Messthetics, \u2018Better Wings\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fugazi<\/a>\u2019s songs were filled with fierce<\/a>, ear-catching<\/a> guitarwork, but out-and-out solos? Not so much. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so fascinating to hear the post-hardcore heroes\u2019 rhythm section, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty, playing in a new group, the Messthetics, that\u2019s practically built around the idea of giving the guitar room to soar.<\/p>\n

Case in point: \u201cBetter Wings,\u201d a recently released track from the instrumental trio\u2019s upcoming second LP, Anthropocosmic Nest<\/a>,<\/em> out September 6th. After setting up a driving riff, guitarist Anthony Pirog \u2014 a seasoned player equally steeped in jazz, surf, punk, and roots music \u2014 shifts into whirring lines that complement Lally and Canty\u2019s fleet, muscular groove. Around the 1:30 mark, Pirog ramps up the intensity, letting fly with nimble melodic wizardy, and building from ecstatic trills to dazzling fretboard acrobatics that wouldn\u2019t sound out of place on a 1980s shred-guitar LP.<\/p>\n

The moment feels completely apt in context, a testament to the Messthetics\u2019 skillful integration of punk scrappiness with a brand of unabashed virtuosity that might have once seemed highly unusual for a band releasing albums via legendary D.C. indie Dischord. Pirog\u2019s tasteful flash only gets more audacious from there, before Canty and Lally drive the song home with an emphatic half-time outro.<\/p>\n

Overall, \u201cBetter Wings\u201d and the Messthetics\u2019 approach as a whole serves as a reminder that hardcore has always had its exploratory, fusion-leaning wing: Think of Black Flag\u2019s instrumental excursions<\/a>, guitarist Greg Ginn\u2019s offshoot trio Gone<\/a>, or the influence of groups like Return to Forever on the early work of the Bad Brains. As Lally and Canty\u2019s old band \u2014 who seamlessly blended dub<\/a> and funk<\/a> influences with their more aggressive side \u2014 proved way back when, punk isn\u2019t always about what you strip away from rock; sometimes it\u2019s about what you can find a way to include.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fugazi\u2019s songs were filled with fierce, ear-catching guitarwork, but out-and-out solos? Not so much. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so fascinating to hear the post-hardcore heroes\u2019 rhythm section, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty, playing in a new group, the Messthetics, that\u2019s practically built around the idea of giving the guitar room to soar. Case in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 03:34:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}