Love this song! I like the mix of the pretty backing track and the discordant organ bit. There's a terrifying video now also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggR6RuBh8I0
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Friday, 20 April 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/27/153520354/first-listen-liars-wixiwHalfway through, I'm enjoying what I hear. A lot.
― willem, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
the single and the opening track are both exactly the sound i didn't know i always wanted liars to make.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
Holy crap that opener is gorgeous.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
This is really really good. The first 5 tracks especially.
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
this is so good
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Love this record, btw.
― www.gbokchoymail.com (admrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
"Brats" is killer
― ilxor, Thursday, 14 June 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
This is one of the most horrible things I have ever heard.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 14 June 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
Why do you say that?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
To me it's just so ultimately... contemptuous-seeming and ugly. It's just an ugly slog of disparate pieces that don't mesh. It doesn't have any climactic moments. It sounds joyless and dead, and his sarcastic singing voice makes every song sound like a joke. Also, each song pretty much ends in the same place that it started.
I wanted it to be beautiful, but it managed only a clatter of signifiers of beauty.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
drum's not dead still holds up imo
― am0n, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's holding up a corner of my coffee table right now.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
ba dum bum
― am0n, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to this album again this morning and it's great
― mh, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
there are a few tracks that are kind of boilerplate liars on the WIXIW but also a few really great tracks - no. 1 against the rush and a ring on every finger are amazing
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure what to make of this. I'm listening to it a lot, and enjoying it, but it seems so in thrall to Kid A, Amnesiac era Radiohead at points as to almost be pastiche. One song bites Cuttooth so hard, and he sings so much like Thom so often, that I don't know if its got its tongue in its cheek.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't quite get a radiohead vibe off of the album, but I definitely see where you're coming from.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Sick, you asked me what I thought about this record?
(Don't know if I'm just your ~representative RH fan~ or something)
Anyway. Yeah, I can hear a Radiohead-y kind of vibe to the music, but it's more that it just seems to be doing the same kind of '00s cusp indietronica thing. There was a song that sounded exactly like an Appliance song on there as well. For the most part, I quite like the music, the instrumentation is the kind of wibble I like and the arrangements keep my attention well. (I only skipped one song! This is p good.)
BUT.
I disagree that the singer is biting Thom Yorke. If he is, I wish he would do a better job. The problem is, too many indie singers hear Thom doing that thing where he doesn't enunciate and he slurs his consonants in a rush to get to the vowels - and think that's all there is to it. So they mumble along - without realising that what makes Thom such a great singer isn't his lack of enunciation, but his ability to *emote* so that the emotional quality of his voice becomes as important if not more important than than the actual words he's singing.
The singer of this band just kind of mumbles along in a monotone and never really shows much emotion of any kind, he just comes across as lazy. Which is a shame because I actively liked the music on several songs - Octagon and Brats seemed like they could have been quite decent tunes if he'd put some effort in.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
That is kind of the exact inverse of what I like about both singers! I like Yorke's voice but sometimes the delivery just seems kind of overblown and I don't quite buy the emoting! I wish the new Liars album was a bit less falsetto-heavy, though, and kind of prefer the drudgey vocal parts.
doesn't enunciate and he slurs his consonants in a rush to get to the vowels
I never noticed Thom Yorke's midwestern america accent until now :)
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't hear any falsetto on this album?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
besides a few moments in the vocals (and that's maybe almost coincidence, i think andrew has his own thing going on that's not remotely yorke-imitation) i'm not really reminded of radiohead, it sounds more like a natural development for they were wrong so we drowned-vibe liars going more electronic. maybe a bit of a surface reading on too few listens, but the main thing i'm getting from it is something like a very sensible meeting between that era of liars and blackest ever black, demdike stare etc-type stuff, or maybe that natural development just naturally ends up there.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
xxp angus andrew is australian!
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
iirc "Ill Valley Prodigies" and the one a couple tracks later have some falsetto
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Monday, 9 July 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Oh. Ill Valley Prodigies was the one I ended up skipping. Oops.
I repeat, I don't think they're biting Radiohead or whatever, just operating in a similar area.
Boys mumble all over the world, it's not confined to the American Midwest or the Upper Thames Valley.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
nah, I meant the vowel elongation, as we midwesterners prooonoouunce eeveery vahhoowel
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Monday, 9 July 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
There are just a handful of (maybe only 2) very specific moments where it sounds like he's singing Yorke lyrics / melodies. One where he sings something very similar to the refrain of Cuttooth - "I don't know why I feel so [something something]" and the rhythm of the delivery is very similar. There's another as well but I'd have to be listening to it to recall it.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 9 July 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Just now listening to this. I can take or leave Liars depending on the particular album, but I definitely approve of WIXIW.
I guess I can kind of hear the post-millenial Radioheadisms mentioned upthread, but the similarities are just on the fringes imo.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 September 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to this about four times in a row yesterday whilst driving across Dartmoor. It was a beautiful day.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 7 September 2012 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
This isn't a beautiful album. It's crawling. It's quite desperate, and angry, but subdued. Possibly misantrhopic at points. There are some moments when light breaks through, but not many. Brats is savage. I feel like they're trying to make a point but I'm not sure what about.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 7 September 2012 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
Just got Sisterworld. Awesome. Really woozy, unsettling mix and arrangements, like a rock band melted. This band have clicked hard for me in the last six months.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
i'm going to need to revisit sisterworld which i never really liked the first time around. but wixiw is really awesome, almost everything i want from liars.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
fact magazine have a preview of a Vessel remix of one of the wixiw tracks, pretty bleak
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I bought Sisterworld today too!
Seeing them on the 19th, can't wait.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/liars-wixiw-round-39-nicks-choice/
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1fbu7zLII
cool.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 17 January 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
fantastic
― call all destroyer, Friday, 17 January 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
album is gonna be hot.
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
yes, more pls
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
That's fucking awesome.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
second album trailer (featuring a different song, i think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnb4A-Cumsc
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 23 January 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
crappy techno
― hang son doong (am0n), Thursday, 23 January 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
oh man i love this even more than the other new song. that slicing processed-horn or synth sound is killer.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 23 January 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ArnXsZMHk
can't wait for this thing to be released.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
full album streaming now!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 17 March 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
this is really good.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
daaaamn i want to listen to this but no time for like the next three days
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
i'm interviewing aaron tomorrow. looking forward to it.
― mary-kate and ashley's roachclip (get bent), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
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).
― dronestreet, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
this might be their weirdest album in years, which is good
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link