One step closer in the path towards their debut album, out later this year via Tarla Records and StoneFree Records, indie-rock outfit Messiness presents 'Fatally', a Britpop-hued track that delves into the harrowing reality of substance dependency. Penned in Liverpool, this is a profound and melancholic exploration of addiction as a relentless cycle of promised redemption and inevitable failure, where rehabilitation feels like another form of incarceration, and the self remains fragmented and adrift.
This song ultimately serves as a poignant manifesto for those perpetually caught in a loop of broken promises and wasted years, watching the world move forward while they remain stranded in the wreckage of their past. Time stops at the edge of a power pop daydream.
"I penned this while I was living in Liverpool, right after sharing a few pints with this lad I met down the local. He’d just gotten out of the therapeutic community. 'Fatally' is a harrowing introspection on addiction, rehabilitation, and the crushing weight of time’s inescapable forward march. It is a song about being caught in a cycle that simultaneously promises redemption and assures failure, where rehabilitation becomes another form of incarceration, and the self—battered, fragmented, and alienated—remains hopelessly adrift," says Max Raffa.
"This is not simply the story of one individual’s struggle with addiction; it is a melancholic manifesto for those who have tried and failed, for those who live suspended in the liminality of broken promises and wasted years, for those who have watched the world move forward while they remain stranded in the wreckage of their past selves."
On 'Fatally', vibrant guitar jangle crash against raw confessions, spinning tales of lost years into gold-drenched melodies. A sonic postcard from a late 1960s sunset – all amber light and long shadows – where life’s gravity pulls against soaring harmonies. Each chord progression cuts like a calendar page torn away – relentless and unforgiving. This is where personal wreckage collides with Mellotron orchestrations; where life’s beautiful disasters find sanctuary in 210-second escapes from reality. A song that makes you smile while your heart breaks for all the versions of yourself you’ve left behind.
