LIARS
NEW ALBUM – WIXIW – JUNE 5TH, 2012
NEW SINGLE – “NO.1 AGAINST THE RUSH” – MAY 29TH
VISIT facebook.com/LiarsOfficial TO LISTEN
UPCOMING SHOWS IN NYC & LA
Wed 6/20 – Webster Hall – New York City, NY
Fri 6/22 – The Music Box – Los Angeles, CA
Liars – Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross – have announced further details of their eagerly awaited new album.
Titled WIXIW (pronounced “wish you”), the 11-track album will be preceded by a single, “No.1 Against The Rush”.
Head over to www.facebook.com/LiarsOfficial to listen to the new song.
WIXIW, set for release on Mute on June 5th 2012, is the band’s sixth studio album and the follow up to 2010’s critically lauded Sisterworld, which garnered an 8.1 Pitchfork rating and Best New Music distinction.
Known for their live performances, Liars are confirmed for two highly anticipated shows this June for what will be the first shows since the winter of 2010. The live dates include Webster Hall on June 20th in New York City and a show at the Music Box in Los Angeles on June 22nd.
The title, WIXIW, is explained by Angus Andrew, “’wish you’ is a familiar and universal sentiment of longing and hope, but when misspelled becomes uniquely shrouded and difficult to interpret, which in many ways is representative of our music and the songs we wrote for this album”.
Watch what happens when human beings are confronted with WIXIW and see it manifest in unlikely places.
He continues, “The word being a palindrome offered us some comfort, and came from superstitious behavior that was the result of extreme uncertainty and doubt. The word and spelling struck us because it seemed to exude a special quality or power.”
Recorded in LA, self-produced by the band with additional production from Daniel Miller and mixed by Tom Biller, the album is hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to get out of one’s head even after an initial listen. Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, it is both a summation of Liars’ work up to now, and a complete break from anything you’d ever heard the band do previously.
“If we aren’t confusing people, it’s not us,” Andrew laughs. “If we aren’t confusing ourselves with what we do, then we’ve failed.”
Listen to No.1 Against The Rush at www.facebook.com/LiarsOfficial
Watch a series of video teasers created by the band on their Tumblr, which have given rise to much speculation on where this ever evolving, ever influential band are headed: http://amateurgore.tumblr.com/
WIXIW TRACKLISTING
The Exact Colour 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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