“If Liars’ WIXIW found the band getting comfortable with electronics, “Mess on a Mission” is the result of them gaining confidence with that direction. There are a couple of different incarnations of the band present here, as singer Angus Andrew returns to the falsettoed howl of “Plaster Casts of Everything” and layers it over a background that takes the WIXIW template and shreds it into something ”
