LIARS’ latest album,
The Apple Drop, is out today on limited edition recycled colored vinyl, CD, and digital platforms. One of two exclusive color flexidiscs – each featuring an acoustic version of either “Sekwar” or “Big Appetite” – will be available through select independent shops and Mute’s store while supplies last. Stream and purchase
here.
The Apple Drop follows 2017
’s
TFCF and 2018
’s
Titles with the Word Fountain, both distinctly solo affairs, but for Liars’ 10th studio album released 20 years after the debut, Angus chose to expand and embrace collaboration.
“My goal was to create beyond my abilities – something bigger than myself.” The new album sees Angus working with avant-garde jazz drummer
Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist
Cameron Deyell, and lyricist
Mary Pearson Andrew.
Ahead of the album’s release, Liars performed a secret show in Sydney, Australia.
Liars: Live at Phoenix was directed by
Clemens Habicht – who recently created
a trilogy of films for
The Apple Drop – and sees Angus Andrew, Laurence Pike, and Cameron Deyell perform “Murdrum” (from
Titles with the Word Fountain), “Sekwar” and “Big Appetite” (both from
The Apple Drop) in the futuristic wood and concrete surrounds of
Phoenix Central Park, a performance space and gallery.
Watch Liars: Live at Phoenix
here.
Angus explains,
“Given the state of the world, this performance was uniquely exhilarating. We heightened that intensity by asking the audience to wear white and stand in the round like some cultish galactic council. It created an atmosphere unlike any other Liars show and made me feel uncharacteristically energised by human proximity.” “It felt essential for the work to be performed in the nest at Phoenix Central Park. The hyper modern architecture intensified the drama and framed the whole evening in a spectacular sci-fi universe. I can’t express enough thanks and gratitude to Phoenix Central Park for the opportunity to debut The Apple Drop
in such an awe-inspiring space.” 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,” he 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.
MORE ABOUT PHOENIX CENTRAL PARKPhoenix Central Park is Sydney’s newest contemporary performance space promoting genuine artistic risk-taking and unique collaborations that are as bold as the building’s multi-award-winning architecture.
As the singular vision of philanthropist Judith Neilson AM, well-known as the founder and owner of Sydney’s prized White Rabbit Gallery, Phoenix serves as a creative beacon for adventurous artists and audiences alike.
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