Liars

6th Studio Album Reissued on Recycled Vinyl

LIARS – WIXIW

LIMITED EDITION RECYCLED VINYL OF THE BAND’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM OUT NOW ON MUTE

LIARS SET TO HOST ESSENTIAL TREMORS FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK – 15 OCT

LIARS’ sixth studio album WIXIW (pronounced “wish you”) is the latest in the band’s catalogue to be released on limited edition recycled vinyl as part of an ongoing series. Originally released in 2012, the vinyl is out now via Mute: https://mute.ffm.to/recycledliars 

WIXIW was the continuation of a flawless run of album releases that led NME to declare them “…supreme rule-breakers” and Clash to call this “their most mysterious and rewarding album yet”. From the first teaser, through the two singles ‘No.1 Against the Rush’ and its Todd Cole directed horror film—which sees Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross abducted by a shadowy figure in downtown LA—and ‘Brats’ with its accompanying nightmarish computer-generated hunter vs. rabbit video by the artist Ian Cheng, the album was immediately hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to forget.

Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, WIXIW was both a summation of Liars’ output up to that point, and a complete break from anything they had done before. Written in a remote cabin, recorded in LA, self-produced by the band with additional production from Daniel Miller and mixed by Tom Biller, WIXIW signalled a move towards working more intensely with synthesisers and sequencers and, as Angus Andrew explained at the time, “If we aren’t confusing people, it’s not us. If we aren’t confusing ourselves with what we do, then we’ve failed.”

Talking about the recycled vinyl series, Angus Andrew explained, “This record is being repressed to recycled coloured vinyl—not only to save the Earth—but also so that each album sports its own unique hue composed of the cast off shards of other artists’ dreams!”

In 2021, Liars released The Apple Drop. Where recent releases from Liars have been distinctly solo affairs, on this, their 10th studio album—released 20 years after Liars’ debut—Angus Andrew (now the sole member of the band) chose to expand and embrace collaboration. “My goal was to create beyond my abilities––something bigger than myself.” The Apple Drop saw Angus working with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew to create one of the albums of the year at The Quietus, Record Collector and AllMusic. It was described by NME as their “most refined and accessible” while The Guardian declared, “After 20 years, Angus Andrew can still get the sweat itching down your back.” 

Liars will host a New York edition of the Essential Tremors festival at Public Records on 15 October. Line-up will see 12 bands across 2 stages and includes Liars DJ set, Jonnine (HTRK), Anastasia Coope and many more. The festival, conceived by Angus Andrew [Liars] in the height of lockdowns, is a celebration of artists navigating the boundless nature of sound, highlighting the challenging, the esoteric and the bold. Full line up and tickets HERE.

Buy / listen to WIXIW: https://mute.ffm.to/recycledliars 

WIXIW TRACKLISTING

The Exact Color of Doubt

Octagon

No.1 Against the Rush

A Ring on Every Finger

Ill Valley Prodigies

WIXIW

His and Mine Sensations

Flood to Flood

Who Is the Hunter

Brats

Annual Moon Words

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