Waax – Angel’s Mess

Angel’s Mess, the third album from Australian band WAAX, was written between Melbourne and Los Angeles and captures the messy, disorienting work of starting over. Frontwoman Marie DeVita began writing it three years ago at her lowest point: label gone, closest friendships fractured, future unclear. Eventually, DeVita relocated to LA and reunited with longtime production partner Miro Mackie (who was behind the Wild & Weak EP), and the two locked themselves in a North Hollywood studio for two months straight. The title ‘Angel’s Mess’ has two lives. The first: the record really was a mess, chaotic, emotional, built from scraps across years and continents, threaded together in a pressure-cooker studio run. The second: Angel’s Mess is a dish at Millie’s, a diner in Silver Lake. It’s a weird-looking plate of food that somehow tastes incredible. For DeVita, it’s a perfect fit, every element of this record seems like it shouldn’t work together. It all does.