As a member of the legendary Harvey Milk, Stephen Tanner has helped craft some of the most astonishingly heavy, emotionally intense, and surprisingly beautiful sludge metal in the genre's history, capturing the ugliness and joy of the human experience and turning it into something sublimely punishing. Looking to explore the darker, more depressing side of the world, Tanner looks to his own inner struggles for inspiration on Things Haven't Gone Well, his solo debut as Music Blues. While the music here definitely shares a common ancestry with his work with Harvey Milk, Music Blues feels relatively direct in its approach, eschewing the escalating unapproachability of his other work for something more focused.