LIARS – SISTERWORLD 4
TRACK ALBUM SAMPLER (MUTE)
This was a freebie
promo I picked up at Record Store Day, a four song taster from the latest joint
of Liars.
Liars burst onto the
scene a few years ago with a genuine flurry and sense of excitement and adventure
attached to them that had long felt missing in acts playing the field. They arrived as part of that whole New York
With that Liars
proceeded to wow with sharp stop start motions/gestures and wayward words. When they kicked into a groove you could not
help but move.
Then things went a bit
angular, a bit pear-shaped. Satisfying
their muse they investigated odd avenues and less than pleasing
directions. Much of the goodwill earned
went away. You only listen to a drum in
so many ways.
Liars are now back
with Sisterworld which is their fifth studio album and as ever there is the
hope that it destroys. Please destroy.
The first track of
this sampler is “Scissor” which is a suitably odd and disorientating
offering. It’s a slow building burn,
like a cult or gang waking before entering the day with gestures that are
batshit crazy. With patience/patients
there is pay off. Following is the
excellent entitled “Scarecrows On A Killer Slant” which maintains the movement
with further suggestion of a band with blood on its hands and little on its
conscience.
Third up is “Proud
Evolution” which is a drawn out almost Krautrock excursion. This is the kind of material that has
traditionally served to derail the Liars efforts. Here however it holds up, holds out being a
song that flourishes before your ears.
And the final track is the appropriately entitled “Goodnight Everything”
which rolls at the expected pace with all kinds of peripheral items
scoring/scouring the surroundings.
Delivered like Beck at a death scene it feels almost slow motion. Now whether that is a good thing for any kind
of music is another question. It wails
then blows its own death.
It’s going to be all
right.
Thesaurus moment:
gander.
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