MX Lonely Don’t Fit A Genre, They Devour Them With "ALL MONSTERS"

Written By: Big C

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Photo Credit: Luke Ivanovich

Bands can arrive with influence or identity. MX Lonely feels like a rupture of both. On their debut album ALL MONSTERS, the New York four-piece carve out a sound which refuses tidy classification. If the ‘90s birthed angular indie and bruised grunge confessionals, MX Lonely stretch those bones into something contemporary, urgent, and entirely their own. Across eight self-recorded tracks, cavernous guitars scrape against soaring vocals while rhythm sections lurch and explode with controlled chaos. The record confronts trauma, addiction, neurodivergence, dysphoria, and self-doubt as monsters to name and dismantle. Vocalist Rae Haas frames the album as collective reckoning stating:

'ALL MONSTERS' explores the idea of a collective ownership of the monsters inside all of us – all goods and evils being part of the larger tapestry of human existence. This is something that we are all connected to, despite how hard we try to have a unique human experience.

It’s heavy without being one-note, vulnerable without softening its edges. Singles like Big Hips, Return To Sender, and Anesthetic hinted at the scope — jagged riffs, seasick churn, hooks that bruise before they bloom. But 'ALL MONSTERS' stretches further, into longer, more expansive compositions that mirror the band’s visceral live presence. A release show at Market Hotel on February 28 kicks off a North American tour, with appearances at SXSW and Treefort Festival on deck this spring. Stream 'ALL MONSTERS' now. Some bands borrow eras. MX Lonely might be building their own. Connect with MX Lonely on YOUTUBE, and INSTAGRAM.

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