New Liars Al bum

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

I fucking love it but it's splitting the vote with my colleagues. There's grumbling about hipster curlicues and sarky snarky New York posturing but that's always been there as far as I'm concerned.

The opening track is immense. Really awesome. And it's awesomeness gets even more awesome when you consider the fact he sounds like Kermit The Frog. Drunk Girls is a hoot and there's also a Bowie/Eno/Fripp Style song as well.

Need to get stuck into it over the weekend. I hope he reconsiders splitting up. My favourite band of the last ten years.

Sounds wicked. Is there anything like the Someone Great/All My Friends duo?

*off thread topic I know*

funny thing is that the LP comes with the two CDs (basic and remix), in their sleeves, as freebies. along with two big picture books and two thick LPs in a custom die-cut sleeve. for not much money, so i don't think production cost was a factor at all.

How do we feel about Sisterworld, now?

i respect it but i don't really like it

haha really

yeah idk liars is a band i'm going to give a pretty wide berth to in terms of executing ideas but this record is just kind of flat and unpleasant.

I think post-DND they are more of a live band, really. But they are, like, one of the most awesome live bands ever.

New song:

http://soundcloud.com/muterecords/liars-no-1-against-the-rush

Curveball (even in the wide berth of Liars curveballs) but very enjoyable. A grower.

cool that their new album is called WKIW

fucking LOVE this song, btw. listening to it for the fourth time. less a grower than an immediate, lovely and even catchy song that has absolutely no chance to be a pop hit. reminds me of the bowie/moroder "cat people"!

no takers :(

the soundcloud has gone. i really want to hear it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4fxOuQMMY

cheers contenderizer. i like it well enough.

a lot of people are amazed by it. i just think it's okay.

don't seem to be a lot of folks around here amazed by it, just me. do love it though. listened to it a bunch yesterday. said it reminded me of the cat people theme, and it does, but radiohead's obviously in there too. only complaint i have is that it sort of fizzles at the end.

it's v. good imo

i saw a few people commenting on loving it on my facebook but maybe i'm just virtual friends with the right people. i'm liking it more and more as it happens.

"only complaint i have is that it sort of fizzles at the end."

yeah it seems like a track that's going to GO APE but doesn't. i'm sure that's a deliberate choice on their part, though.

i think it's great! i'm excited to hear the rest of the album, too. the recent pitchfork interview suggested that it would be heavily electronic, which sounds wonderful to me.

Who is producing WIXIW? A while back there was some kind of blog post where they dropped some cryptic remarks about some big shot producer.

Daniel Miller.

They are such a great band, I love them.

Sisterworld was great

Soundcloud is back:
http://soundcloud.com/muterecords/liars-no-1-against-the-rush

SiN Machine 3 days ago
Like David Sylvian let loose with a shit drum machine.....interesting

The album's great.

Sort of a bit new radiohead-y and a bit Mount Heart Attack-y and a bit pop.

yes plz

this is great. agree that it fizzles towards the end but ive come to realize that subtlety when it comes to electronic based music always tends to win out in the end. they could have gone for some ridic crescendo/climax and it would have sounded overdone come 5 years. the tone is what they got right here and thats all i can ask for.

I have a good feeling about this record

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

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/27/153520354/first-listen-liars-wixiw
Halfway through, I'm enjoying what I hear. A lot.

the single and the opening track are both exactly the sound i didn't know i always wanted liars to make.

Holy crap that opener is gorgeous.

This is really really good. The first 5 tracks especially.

this is so good

Love this record, btw.

"Brats" is killer

This is one of the most horrible things I have ever heard.

Why do you say that?

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.

drum's not dead still holds up imo

It's holding up a corner of my coffee table right now.

ba dum bum

I listened to this album again this morning and it's great

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

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.

I don't quite get a radiohead vibe off of the album, but I definitely see where you're coming from.