Liars

Return With New Album ‘The Apple Drop’

LIARS
THE APPLE DROP, OUT 6 AUG 2021

ENTER LIARS’ UNIVERSE WITH THE NEW VIDEO FOR SEKWAR

Angus Andrew has shared the first track from LIARS’ new album, The Apple Drop – out on Mute on 6 August 2021 – and the accompanying video, directed by Clemens Habicht, transports us directly into Liars’ universe.

Watch the video for ‘Sekwar’ here:

The Apple Drop follows 2017’s TFCF and 2018’s Titles with the Word Fountain, both distinctly solo affairs, but for Liars’ 10th album, Angus chose to expand and embrace collaboration. “My goal was to create beyond my abilities – something bigger than myself.”

The new album finds him working with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew. “For the first time I embraced collaboration from an early stage, allowing the work of others to influence the work of my own.”

This mixing of raw, organic live instrumentation in the studio, along with Angus’s solo tinkering at the computer, results in an album that blurs boundaries between the archetypal band structure and experimental electronics. “Momentum and revolution were themes I wanted to explore, to give the listener this sense of transformation and to feel like you were being transported through the wormhole,” he explains.

For Angus, The Apple Drop comes from a personal place of realignment and reconfiguration. “Throughout Liars’ history I have consistently tried to develop new methods of creating music,” Angus says. “On each project I’ve essentially abandoned previous methods and attempted to instead learn different ways of writing and producing songs. Where once I perceived this journey as a straight line, I’m increasingly realising my trajectory is more akin to a spiral. As new ideas are generated, older ones take on new meaning and evolve further.”

There are not many bands that could make looking to the past feel futuristic but here Liars have managed to create an entirely new world – sonically, thematically and lyrically – by doing just that.

THE APPLE DROP TRACK LISTING

The Start

Slow and Turn Inward

Sekwar

Big Appetite

From What the Never Was

Star Search

My Pulse to Ponder

Leisure War

King of the Crooks

Acid Crop

New Planets New Undoings

The Apple Drop is due out on 6 August 2021 on limited edition recycled coloured vinyl, CD and digitally. One of two exclusive flexidiscs, each featuring a different acoustic version of an album track, will be available while stocks last through select independent shops: https://mute.ffm.to/liars-tad

‘Sekwar’ video: https://youtu.be/pAz_9GX-hsI 
Embed: <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/pAz_9GX-hsI” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen></iframe>

Press photograph and artwork, credit Clemens Habicht: https://we.tl/t-ldYSmT0o2T

RECENT PRAISE

“…stands out as one of the finest in a remarkable set that few of their peers have come close to” – The Quietus

“…a fitting testament to Liars’ legacy” – Pitchfork

“…another excellent Liars album in an unbroken line of excellent Liars albums” – Loud & Quiet

“TFCF signals yet another rebirth.” – Spin

“Although Liars may constantly evolve, their high quality output is undeniably reliable.” – The Line Of Best Fit

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