Liars // Sisterworld

I have heard so much about Liars, but I have been too lazy to listen for too long. Thank God that I have snapped out of my idleness, and got active with Sisterworld. Quickly jolting from haunting elongated vocal chants into chaos, Liars manage to scramble two of my most coveted musical tones. On the one hand, they have dark echoing melancholy that sinks to the depths of Nick Cave’s drama, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s reverb twinged atmospherics. And then they go mental. There are these big heavy phrases and sections of music that plump up the songs too well, making interesting and exciting listening the whole way through. Opening track, and the first single from the album, ‘Scissor’ builds and builds towards the epic middle 8, which could easily be a chorus, before tantalisingly ripping out, and back into that sombre softness. I am gripped. The fast, howling influxes throw themselves around my eardrums with off-beat rhythms and syncopated screams, a relentless energy that only Crystal Antlers could match. But I just love that Liars put it all out there, and then remorselessly take it all away. This album is a must-have, and I can’t wait to hear the special edition remix CD featuring ‘reworks’ by artists such as Thom Yorke, Melvins, Alan Vega and Cosey Fanni Tutti. YUMMY.