Liars

6th Studio Album Set For Reissue

LIARS – WIXIW, SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM SET FOR LIMITED EDITION RECYCLED VINYL TREATMENT

OUT ON MUTE ON 25 AUGUST 2023

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 on 25 August 2023 via Mute: https://mute.ffm.to/recycledliars 

“A return to their adventurous, experimental roots” – Pitchfork 

“… each [album release] seems to unlock different aspects of their past. Aptly enough, given its title, WIXIW for me opens up this tenderness that I’d perhaps not sufficiently noticed before. – The Quietus 

“…ambitious” – MOJO “…stunning” – Dazed

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.” 

Pre-order WIXIW: https://mute.ffm.to/recycledliars 

WIXIW TRACK LISTING

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

“To invite Liars under your skin and experience a collective with a fervour for self-reinvention, conquest and commitment akin to Pablo Picasso, I really do recommend listening to a full movement of [albums]” – 

The Quietus Reissue of the Week review of Sisterworld

They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, Drum’s Not Dead, Liars and Sisterworld are all available now on recycled vinyl.

RECENT PRAISE FOR LIARS – THE APPLE DROP

“It’s a beautiful, weird, heartfelt and uncanny album – exactly like the nine records that preceded it and also entirely unlike them.” – The Quietus lead album

“Twenty years in, and Liars are no easier to comprehend – but that’s what makes their version of the truth so compelling.” – Clash 8/10

“…a deliciously unsettling and artful listening experience” – MOJO

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