Liars (Self Titled album 2007)

track by track in real time review plz

uhh...3 tracks in and loving it. nothing as "weird" as the last 2 albums. i'm thinking of it as a sequel to they threw us in all in a trench.

any idea who produced it?

nope.
it sure is wonderful, though. can't wait to buy it and make sweet love to it, in august.

do you work for them?

if i worked for them, would i announce that the album leaked in the first post?.

Can't wait to hear this. But I'm going to try and hold off for official release.

"if i worked for them, would i announce that the album leaked in the first post?."

hard to say these days.

i posted one song here:

Liars - (temp) new 2007 song - "Plaster Casts of Everything"#

nothing as "weird" as the last 2 albums

;__;

yeah, i was also kinda...crying face emoticon about that, as well. but it's a really nice album. a lot of it sounds like oneida.

I think they are supposed to do a sequel to "Atheists, Reconsider" sometime, aren't they? Why do people talk about Liars so much more than Oneida?

Wow, sure wasn't expecting something this. "Houseclouds" sounds like it could've been a Beck song, for shit's sake! I mostly like it so far, though, "Freak Out" is great.

I love the last two albums but I truly DESPISE their first album. Doesn't bode well for the new one, I guess.

Not necessarily. I mean, it's more poppy than the last two by far, and it mostly doesn't sound like either of them, but I certainly don't think it sounds at all like their first album either.

doesn't sound like the first album at all

yeah, it doesn't sound like the first album. it sounds more like their songs on the split with oneida.

"Houseclouds" sounds like it could've been a Beck song, for shit's sake

dammit, you beat me to it! It wouldn't sound out of place on Mutations, for sure, and I mean that in the best possible way.

I'm only 6 songs in, and loving it. "Leather Prowler" sounds like psychedelic Bauhaus, and the opener "Plaster Casts of Everything" rules up until the sort of lame coda. Elsewhere so far they kind of remind me of muscular, even drunker Pavement. Or something. Whatever it is, I'm digging it.

No one mentioned the Jesus and Mary Chain yet? Because that's what it sounds like to me

Yep. Definitely hear Jesus & Mary Chain all over the album.

and the last song "Protection" sounds like late Flaming Lips.

This album feels like a game is being played on the listener. Instead of being of being subversive by being noisier, they are doing pastiches of contemporary indie bands.

they are doing pastiches of contemporary indie bands.

This is my initial impression too. I only started listening to it yesterday though.

I thought there was a bit of GBV about a couplea tracks too.

did not expect to open liars thread and see Pavement/Flaming Lips/Beck/GBV comparisons

You couldn't say it's as "indie" as the first album though. It's still a bit wyrd with the howling and the occasional tribal drumming.

some of the lyrics kind of lessened my initial enjoyment of this album. i don't really remember what they were, but they seemed too literal and corny.

Yeah I recall the lyrics on the last track are a bit meh/nostalgic or something.

"This album feels like a game is being played on the listener. Instead of being of being subversive by being noisier, they are doing pastiches of contemporary indie bands."

certainly feels that way. Liars takin' the piss?

i was the lead singer's waiter a few weeks ago. i didn't know how i recognized him until he stood up and it took, like, six minutes.

i'm going to hold out on this one, too... until it gets closer to the release date, at least.

Still diggin this. esp tracks 4-8. I kind of dislike the 2nd song.

don't know track names.

01 plaster casts of everything
02 houseclouds
03 leather prowler
04 sailing to byzantium
05 what would they know
06 cycle time
07 freak out
08 pure unevil
09 clear island
10 the dumb in the rain
11 protection

Sailing to Byzantium. I love the sci-fi + evil organ ending to that one.

Pavement/Flaming Lips/Beck/GBV comparisons

Those comparisons are scaring me, even though I like those bands.

Eh, I'm the only one who mentioned Pavement, I think, and that wasn't the best comparison. I think I was really drunk at the time, and had just listened to Pavement, so that's probably where that came from. The 'psychedelic Bauhaus' comment I made in the same post was more apt, though.

to me, it's more J&MC meets Oneida. which is a wonderful combo.

"what would they know" stands out for me

xpost yes that's the winner. the dark master

09 clear island

total jam

must hear this. what a great band.

I bought this today and haven't actually gotten to anything beyond "Plaster Casts" yet. I blame society.

put it on shuffle tonight, enjoyed 3-4 tracks until i got distracted by some durutti column goodness

It's streaming on Luisetrpaal, if anyone's interested:
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/

This album is so awesome--it actually captures the spirit of postpunk. What would happen if they concentrated on songwriting only? The world would melt.

dmr otm

I have been listening to this a lot in the last few days and I think it's really great. So it was apparently recorded in a really short period?

plaster casts of everything , cycle time, and clear island are 2 of the most rocking tracks of this year

that sounds like 3 tracks to me buster

I think this is awful and I like the second and third albums and think they're a great live band. :(

Drum's Not Dead is fantastic, this is terrible except or "Pure Unevil" and "Protection."

i thought this was a pretty cool directon. so many different styles. exactly what i wanted from their new one.

oh and yah 3

I have to agree that this one was a big disappointment. Really uninteresting to me.

more interesting than if they had made Drum's Not Dead II. how unromantic!