MESTIS (Animals As Leaders) is Playing a Show in LA + Stream the New Album

by Ryan Minic | Nov 3, 2015

Lookin sharp, Javier. The Animals As Leaders guitarist is set to release the new album for his instrumental side-project Mestis. And he’s lookin all dapper for his upcoming LA show this weekend.

Javier Reyes will be joined by Intronaut’s Joe Lester and Dave Timnick to bring Mestis to the stage this Saturday, November 7th. The show will take place at The Lyric Theater in Los Angeles, and 14-string guitar wizard Felix Martin will be opening the show. You can get tickets here.

The new album Polysemy comes out on November 6th. Here’s a stream of it in full:

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