"Musicians Rae Haas, Jake Harms, and Gabriel Garman met at AA meetings while each was pursuing creative projects that weren't working out for them. They quickly bonded over shared '80s and '90s reference points: Pixies, Deftones, Elliott Smith. Harms and Haas also confessed to a sort of parallel dysphoria: In high school, Harms was unable to express their latent femininity, while Haas never felt masculine enough to fit in with the boys; both are non-binary."
"In MX LONELY, the band the three artists started, Harms and Haas began splitting songwriting and vocal duties, pooling their experiences into their songs. They've called the protagonist of their latest album, ALL MONSTERS, a ghostly "anti-hero" named MX LONELY (the title taken from the name Haas gave their sleep paralysis demon). The album uses time-honored shoegaze and grunge tropes for a study of self-destructive impulses and maladaptive coping mechanisms, imbuing them with energy and humor."
Rae Haas, Jake Harms, and Gabriel Garman formed MX LONELY after meeting at AA meetings while each pursued stalled creative projects. Harms and Haas share non-binary identities and parallel experiences of gender dysphoria that inform their songwriting and vocal duties. ALL MONSTERS centers a ghostly anti-hero named MX LONELY and uses shoegaze and grunge tropes alongside post-hardcore and emo moments. The band favors loud-quiet-loud dynamics, walls of distorted guitars, and dreamy vocal lines. Engineer Corey Coffman balances massive choruses and breakdowns with clear lead vocals. Lyrics blend surreal, melancholic humor with themes of ADHD, autism, trans identity, and maladaptive coping.
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