For most bands, making music is therapy. It’s a cliché, but clichés are clichés for a reason, often because they’re true. It’s fair to say that that was the same for MakeWar, too. Formed out of the ashes of frontman Jose Prieto’s solo endeavor, Sad And French, the Brooklyn trio, completed by bassist Edwin Santacruz and new drummer Alejandro Serritiello, have always worn their hearts on their sleeves. Heartbreak, despair and alcohol have long been at the center of those struggles, and the songs themselves are a way to push through all of that. Whether it was 2015’s MakeWar, that featured full band reinventions and re-recordings of Sad And French songs, 2016’s first album proper, Developing A Theory Of Integrity, or 2019’s Get It Together, MakeWar’s albums have all been intensely cathartic a...