New Liars Al bum

what a concept.

New Liars concept album based on "humans trying to survive in LA" due next year.

Sisterworld to be released on Mute in 2010

excited! though the producer they are working with officially Worries Me.

What's wrong with Tom Biller? (Never heard of him, BTW; I'm just curious).

i dunno...just looking at his credits...he's done stuff with Jon Brion, Beck, Kanye West, Rhett Miller, Evan Dando, Elliot Smith, Silversun Pickups, Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack

basically just strikes me as some pro nu-indie boring type slick producer i guess....

I can see where you might be coming from Matt, but the one thing I've learned being a Liars stan - don't go into any new album with preconceptions AT ALL.

yeah they are def an awesome band and have not let me down but that dudes credentials is like super boring NPR type rock to me....

i basically just hate the way "professional" rock records sound now, so i'm worried about it on just a basic engineering, mix, compression angle

Yeah, I just feel like these guys are pretty involved in how their records sound. It seems like they have been up to this point anyway. I can't see them just sitting back like all, whatever. Then again, fuck, maybe that's part of the "concept" - a super-smooth record to fit the L.A. thing. Hard to tell with these guys.

yeah i mean it's no dealbreaker, i always think they are interesting and this sounds even more interesting with the whole half-baked concept album steez....i am officially going to buy this sound unseen.

it better be a soundtrack for this

http://www.imfdb.org/images/c/c8/EscapeLA.jpg

That would be amazing.

sounds v. william gibson in conception

Thom Yorke, Bradford Cox, Suicide and Melvins on Liars Sisterworld disc two

appears to have leaked, it's on sordo

urgh file seems fucked, nevermind

basically just strikes me as some pro nu-indie boring type slick producer i guess

what did you think of the last record? that was more of a slick modern alt-rock record than this one imo

"humans trying to survive in LA" makes it sound way more sci-fi than it is

coping strategy = hanging out at The Smell, not hoarding gas and going all Mad Max

basically just strikes me as some pro nu-indie boring type slick producer i guess

what did you think of the last record? that was more of a slick modern alt-rock record than this one imo

― dmr, Thursday, January 7, 2010 9:14 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wasn't super down with that record really..was "okay" but i guess i'm more of a they were wrong so we drowned type liars person....actually all the first three are good in their own ways

i guess i'm more of a they were wrong so we drowned type liars person

yeah me too. new one's not as good as that but I like it better than the S/T one. (that had some good songs though, "Clear Island" is badass. some of it sounded like Beck though .... nothing like that on the new one really)

The Scarecrow "Why d'you pass the bum on the street?" track is one of the best things they've ever done.

I played it on New Year's Eve. Everyone was gobsmacked. (Admittedly some of them started booing but everyone else was going bananas.)

The Scarecrow "Why d'you pass the bum on the street?" track is one of the best things they've ever done.

yeah totally! that one came on when I was on the subway on the way home from work tonight and I was rockin out, kind of has that Drowned vibe (even the title ... "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant") but with bigger guitars

i loved the s/t and i think "they were wrong" is probably my last favorite thing they've done (though it still has some jams on it). finally listening to sisterworld.

Thought the last one was a tiny disappointment after Drums, but have heard good things about the newie. Also still one of the most intense live bands around.

"Scarecrows on a Killer Slant" is AWESOME, and sounds great turned waaaaay up. Can't wait to hear a high quality version.

lol american movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04domJ7F0oY

the end is LOL

"The Overachievers" is my new jam off this record

we drove the biocar
cuz we all loved the earth
it didn't get us far
and always sounded like a walllrussss
with ullllcerrrss

^^yesssssss

Love the album, but big WTF on the standard edition packaging? I guess they really wanted people to shell out for the deluxe. For those that haven't seen it, the disc comes in one of those cardboard sleeves that labels used to send promos in. I'm all for not having another jewel box taking up space on my shelves, but this packaging just seems way lazy.

dude, i'll second that one. seriously thought about stealing this off the internet (which i almost never do) because the standard packaging is so half-assed. paying close to $20 for the deluxe edition wasn't really an option either as i like to keep any whiffs of thom yorke and tv on the radio out of the house.

anyhow, got it cheaply enough and glad i did. it's some pretty primo liars.

oh man, i'm with you jon on the packaging. digipaks, fine. but this is almost some "if we could, we'd just hand you a loose CD" kind of shit. yeah, the cardboard sleeve is cheaper and better for the environment, but it's not that sturdy, and it almost feels like what i imagine it'd feel like to buy a hardcover that used tissue paper as a dust cover instead of actual paper.

i guess if it were an environmental thing the deluxe version would come in two cardboard cases? i wonder what the reasoning behind this was.

I ended up forking over for the deluxe package as Liars are one of the few acts I throw in with as a matter of course. Even though the last album sucked.

The new one just keeps getting better, and the bonus disc might be the first collection of remixes I've ever heard that actually coheres and sort of enhances the effect of listening to the original. The only thing I skip on it is the TV on the Radio dude w/ predictable a capella misfire, zeroing in on "dumb" lyrics and coming off just dumb.

I dunno if it tops Drum's Not Dead yet but this is really fucking good.

i wonder what the reasoning behind this was.

possibly budget? there's not a lot of $$$s in doing what liars do, wonderful though it is.

how good is this btw? being poor as poor but trying not to steal i have limited myself to 1 album purchase per month- next month its the gil scott heron and after that it is this v. the four tet album (v. anything else great that might come out between now and then v. is that knife opera thing out yet?)

yeah, the knife record came out

For the little it's worth the Liars album will be up there with LCD, Lindstrom and Christabelle and The Fall for me. It takes a while to click into place but I can't stop playing it.

^you've heard the LCD?! What's it like?

i try not to listen to streams but couldn't resist. this is really good, and a nice progression from WIXIW (which I ended up loving).

this might be their weirdest album in years, which is good

i don't know if i'd throw "weirdest album" around, but this is really good -- evolution of the sounds & atmospheres first mined on WIXIW, but with a much heavier club influence. i feel like this is their true electro album...and can't wait to see what their next left-turn is, stylistically.

worked at the record store this weekend, and sold the first one to a kid who said, "this sounds like marilyn manson."

...i have not let that that ruin the record for me.

weirder than the self-titled and Wixiw, maybe? That's all I meant.

weird is one of my highest words of praise

i'll go for that :)
must've skipped over the "recent"
definitely a big tonal shift towards ambient/soundscape/drone stuff over the last third of the record

i like 'boyzone' as a song title

This isn't very good. It's probably the least memorable of all their albums. Still it gets a free pass from all the places you'd expect (Quietus, Fact, etc).

I'm not much of a depeche mode fan or of the other such programmed beat oriented groups they are imitating or mocking here, so I wonder if I should even bother (I have liked some of what they did earlier in their time together)

I've only listened to it a couple of times so far but I think this is great. I LOVE Mess On A Mission; most exciting single / song / track / whatever I've heard so far this year. They seem to have followed the course they set with Brats on WIXIW, which I'm delighted with because I loved that track.

having trouble parsing curmudgeon's post but that Mute Audio Documents comp is kind of fun and seeing Liars on Mute in that scope is kind of fun

I was referencing this from the NPR writeup:

the new album embraces the type of electro-pop that underpins the catalog of the band's parent label, Mute. Throughout the early 1980s, Mute Records built its brand on the likes of Depeche Mode, Erasure and Yaz. On songs like "Vox Turned D.E.D." and "Can't Hear Well," Andrew uses his baritone to mimic the icy intonations of these hallmark acts, the gothic synth chord changes of Hemphill and Gross following suit. "I'm No Gold" even finds Liars doing Adult.-esque electro.
Some of the Europop moves on Mess are so spot-on that one gets the feeling that Liars are taking the piss.

yeah, depeche mode of that era != depeche mode of any era since

Two albums of quite a similar aesthetic in a row is a long pisstake.

But not beyond them.

Yeah, I would say this is a palette of sounds they like, not any sort of pisstake.

I mean, unless They Were Wrong, So We Drowned was supposed to be one, too

Belatedly listening to this. It actually reminds me a bit of Shy Child, which is not something I ever thought I would say of a Liars album.

I'm sure it's from a similar synth patch, but I heard "Mask Maker" in Chipotle today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgtISVfW2TE

and over the din it was very reminiscent of Hysterix "Talk to Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNSrrXjJ71Y

i completely forgot about these guys. i loved They Were Dead... and Drums Not Dead but they lost me with the s/t. listening to both of those records now for the first time in years and they're still so beautiful...

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/liars-tfcf.jpg?quality=80&w=806

So this band is now a solo project, Angus is the only member. Does anyone else find this odd? From the second LP on they were a solid trio. This news has kind of been buried in the press release/new album hype as well.

Someone I know was very, very bummed about the news the other day. It was the first I'd heard of it.

also what the fuck is this album called? I can't read that shit

It's TFCF which I believe stands for Theme From Crying Fountain. Pretty disappointed to see Aaron and Julian go, too - they were such a weird magical unit, especially around the DND period.

definitely one of the weirdest career/sonic arcs in indiedom

is that dickbutt on the cake or what

shit, I saw that there was new material coming but missed the fact the band's mostly disbanded :(

bummer

Wow. New record is out today and it's really, really good. Moody and groovy. It probably only compares to Liars (can't think of what it reminds me of, maybe Microphones' Mt. Eerie at times?) but this is pretty compelling.

It's growing on me. My first thought was "Yeah, this is what Liars sounds like when it's pared down to just one guy"

I'm really getting a lot out of this album still. And I love the shrieking cockatoos on the tracks, it's a sound we take for granted here but man is it frightening.