MX LONELY, Rae Haas, Jake Harms, Gabriel Garman, Owen Lehman, Julia’s War Recordings, Market Hotel, bloodsports, Wiring, They Are Gutting A Body of Water, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Trauma Ray, Cryogeyser, Midrift, SXSW, Gazed & Confused,
Blog Post: MX LONELY unveil “Return to Sender” from their debut album ‘All Monsters’, arriving February 20 via Julia’s War Recordings. The track warns that everything meant for you comes back around, a concept vocalist and synthesist Rae Haas explores in the official music video directed by Owen Lehman. Haas explains the song tackles trying to understand when someone directs indifference your way, a sentiment that spirals harder to process than straight hatred. Written off the dome from a viewpoint outside their own head, the repeated chorus phrase became an attempt to accept that outside perspective and recognize that when your side of the street stays clean, others’ opinions become burdens you don’t have to carry.
The Brooklyn band closed out 2025 with “Shape Of An Angel”, exploring addiction, neurodivergence, and codependency through destructive relationships with honest lyrics and heavy hooks. Last fall brought “Big Hips”, reflecting on the gender dysphoria of trans adolescence through angst-filled riffs and endlessly catchy lyrics that earned acclaim from FLOOD Magazine, Chasing Sundays, and Stereogum. The trio of Haas, guitarist Jake Harms, and bassist Gabriel Garman originally met at AA meetings while pursuing separate musical projects, bonding over everything from Pixies and Elliott Smith to Chat Pile and black midi before officially becoming MX LONELY in 2022.
‘All Monsters’ marks their first entirely self-recorded release, capturing a live, immediate, analogue sound that embodies their visceral performances while creating their most nuanced experience yet. The album stretches into the longest songs the band has made, with cavernous guitars, soaring vocals, and hulking low-end exploring lostness on “Kill The Candle”, codependency on “Shape Of An Angel”, and childhood nightmares on the haunting seven-minute closer “Whispers In The Fog”. Midpoint track “Blue Ridge Mtns” adapts a folk song Harms wrote in high school, depicting a drive to rehab while fading in and out of consciousness as both an ode to family and a bare look at addiction set to some of the band’s most powerful music.
MX LONELY headline Market Hotel on February 28 to celebrate the album release with support from bloodsports and Wiring, with festival appearances confirmed for SXSW in Austin and Gazed & Confused in Dallas. The band has built touring credentials supporting The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Trauma Ray, Cryogeyser, and Midrift, recently opening for They Are Gutting A Body of Water in New York City. The group continues building a community based on mutual catharsis while working on their own studio to maintain control of their sound and invite collaborators into that creative space.