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  Watch Liars Do Awesome Arty Things in 'I Saw You From the Lifeboat' Video

  May 16, 2013 – Liars' excellent WIXIW found the Los Angeles noise-makers crafting an electronic album on their own beguiling terms, dwelling in the art form's more purgatorial nature, as critic Andy Beta noted. …
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  Watch Liars Enter the Matrix in 'The Exact Color of Doubt' Video

  April 3, 2013 – Liars thrilled and stunned on their more electronic-leaning last album WIXIW (pronounced "wish you") and one of the 2012 set's many highlights is the gossamer drifter "The Exact Color of Doubt." SPIN's Andy Beta described the songs as "a lucid dream evoking Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II at its most disembodied: gravity-free synth washes, a lullaby-like melody, muffled thumps of percussion, and the foreboding [Angus] …
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  See Liars' Weed-Fueled Hoop Dreams Come to Life in 'WIXIW' Video

  February 6, 2013 – In the brand new video for "WIXIW" by Liars, the Los Angeles art-rock experimentalists work with director Alex/2Tone to paint a sometimes disturbing portrait of dedication to a fleeting goal. …
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  Stevie, Nix: Another Terrible Indie Rock Fleetwood Mac Covers Album on the Way

  November 27, 2012 – England's MOJO magazine may be somewhat infamous for celebrating the past, but the enduring rock rag hustles hard to connect the old to the new via its impressive "revisited" CD series, which wrangles a consistently interesting lineup of contemporary artists to cover an entire classic album of yore. Last year they had Villagers, amongst others, do Neil Young. …
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  Watch Liars' Twisted 'Brats' Clip: A Looney Tunes-Like Nightmare

  July 30, 2012 – In his review of Liars' WIXIW early last month, SPIN contributor Andy Beta wrote that the L.A. …
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  Liars Break Down the Electronic Influences That Shaped 'WIXIW'

  June 15, 2012 – On their sixth album, WIXIW (pronounced "Wish You"), Liars have dispatched the dissonant guitars and jarring rhythms in favor of rich tapestries of burbling analog synths and hypnotic machine beats. …
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• Liars, 'WIXIW' (Mute)

  June 8, 2012 – Has there ever been a conceptual art project (doubling as a rock band, tripling as a Trojan horse) more confounding and successful than Liars? Or a more appropriately named band, given that the shape-shifting trio carefully erects aesthetic parameters with each new studio album, only to gleefully pulverize them, burying listeners and their misguided expectations, every time? …
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  Visit the Hidden Bunker Where Liars Recorded 'WIXIW'

  April 30, 2012 – "We'd looked at a few places to make this record... big houses in strange neighborhoods," says Liars' Aaron Hemphill, sleepy-eyed under a short mop of bleached bedhead. "But we wanted something more compact and remote. …
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  See Liars Get Kidnapped in 'No. 1 Against the Rush' Video

  April 20, 2012 – Liars have changed styles over the years, and they've moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles with a stop in Berlin, but darkness has a way of following them. The art-rock trio's sixth album, WIXIW, is due out on June 5 via Mute Records, and its first video selection, "No. 1 Against the Rush," is tantalizingly ambiguous about the new record's trajectory. …
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  WATCH: Beck, St. Vincent, Liars Cover INXS

  March 25, 2010 – Beck's Record Club series features indie all-stars joining Beck in the studio to re-imagine classic albums. For the fourth installment, Annie Clark and Daniel Hart from St. Vincent, NYC experimental groupLiars, Sergio Dias from Brazilian band Os Mutantes, and Record Clubveteran Brian Lebarton joined Beck to record Kick, the 1987 chart-topper from Aussie New Wavers INXS. Check out a performance video of "Guns in the Sky" below! …
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