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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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
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.
― dronestreet, Monday, 24 March 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
weirder than the self-titled and Wixiw, maybe? That's all I meant.
― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 24 March 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
weird is one of my highest words of praise
― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 24 March 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― dronestreet, Monday, 24 March 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
i like 'boyzone' as a song title
― nathey, Monday, 24 March 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
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).
― Position Position, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
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)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah, depeche mode of that era != depeche mode of any era since
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Two albums of quite a similar aesthetic in a row is a long pisstake.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
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
― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
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...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/liars-tfcf.jpg?quality=80&w=806
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 1 July 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
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.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
Someone I know was very, very bummed about the news the other day. It was the first I'd heard of it.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 2 July 2017 03:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 2 July 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
definitely one of the weirdest career/sonic arcs in indiedom
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 July 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link