MrMessy’s I Want to Make Her Happy EP feels like it crawled out from the wreckage of old drives and unfinished ideas, only to arrive sounding entirely current. Built from glitches, vocoders, sharp edges and warped grooves, these three tracks come out swinging — not in volume, but in personality.
The title track, I Want to Make Her Happy, opens the EP with a slow, almost hesitant pulse. A pitched vocal winds around a steady synth bed, while piercing, glitched bass shots jab in and out with purpose. The stereo movement on the FX is no accident — it twists and ricochets in all directions. Then comes a breakdown where the mood softens: vocoder vocals take over, and everything lifts slightly, like a breath held then exhaled. There’s a lot going on technically, but it never trips over itself.
I Love Your Body flips into triplet mode. It’s seductive and weird in equal parts, with vocals that loop “I love your body, come with me” over a synth line that’s been pushed and mangled by LFO modulation. It feels like a sweaty dancefloor memory filtered through a corrupted USB stick.
Then there’s Collecting Smiles, the most nostalgic of the three. Vocoded vocals ride on top of a straight-up 80s-style beat with a bassline that never lets up. It’s cleaner than the previous tracks, but still bent just enough to feel like MrMessy’s own version of retro.
Across all three, there’s a clear sense of someone who enjoys breaking things and putting them back together wrong in just the right way. None of the tracks are pristine, and that’s the point. They don’t need to be. This isn’t clean-cut electronic music. It glitches, stutters, and plays with expectations — and in doing so, it finds its own logic.
The EP wouldn’t feel out of place in a chaotic indie video game soundtrack, especially in moments where things start to go sideways. There’s a DIY quality that makes it hard to predict, but easy to return to.
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