Liars

Release new album ‘Mess’ – out 24/25 March. Watch the album trailer & listen to first song ‘Mess On A Mission’.

LIARS (Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross) have announced details of their new album, Mess, out on 24 March 2014 and have unveiled the first track, Mess On A Mission, listen here:

Mess is the follow up to 2012’s WIXIW, the sound of a band in an ambiguous, fragile

in-between state. Mess, on the other hand, is Liars with their balls out – an angry, ecstatic, primal burst of ritualistic electronics that sacrifices self persecution for potent, purposeful abandon.

Explains Angus Andrew, “We are a reactionary, or maybe a better word is schizophrenic band. We go from one extreme to the other. Working on the last record was really doubtful and paranoid, and that’s fine, but it just meant that when work started on this one, it was the exact opposite. It was way more instinctual, fun and confident.”

Produced by Angus Andrew and mixed by Timothy “Q” Wiles (whose previous production credits include label-mates VCMG), the new album is less concerned with place as on previous albums, but sees the band back in their own studio in LA.

Mess will be released on CD, double vinyl and download. Details of the limited edition vinyl will be announced soon here: http://liars.sandbaghq.com/

Liars’ career has seen the band rattle through pigeonholes in an attempt to avoid them all together: brittle yet taught punk funk; liminal no-wave; ecstatic noise-pop;

21st-century garage rock; post-millennial post-rock; delicate electronics; reaching here, where Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross now find themselves – maybe not quite at ease with the world, but staring it straight in the eye while showing their teeth.

Last year saw Liars premiere some of the new tracks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Primavera & Sonar festivals, this year the band have announced two US festivals – Desert Daze in April and Austin Psych Fest in May – with more US dates as well as a European tour to be announced shortly.

2014 LIVE DATES – MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

26 April – Desert Daze festival – Sunset Ranch Oasis, US – http://moonblockparty.org/

2-4 May – Austin Psych Fest, US – http://www.austinpsychfest.com/

MESS TRACKLISTING

Mask Maker

Vox Tuned D.E.D.

I’m No Gold

Pro Anti Anti

Can’t Hear Well

Mess On A Mission

Darkslide

Boyzone

Dress Walker

Perpetual Village

Left Speaker Blown

Mess is the sound of Liars not only facing their fears, but chewing them up and spitting them back out in all their technicolour glory.

The album release follows the release of Mess On A Mission, out on 17 March.

Album pre-order links:

Liars store – http://liars.sandbaghq.com/

Amazon – http://smarturl.it/MessCD

iTunes –  http://smarturl.it/messiTunes

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Listen to Mess On A Mission:

SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/1dJtQwl

YouTube: http://youtu.be/tf1fbu7zLII

Watch the album trailer: http://youtu.be/F1OCCbwOKvg

Watch the video teasers: http://vimeo.com/album/2618216