Best new release: Liars’ Mess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N090IONunpo

Like much of the band’s back catalog, songs on the Liars‘ latest album, Mess, are abrasive, challenging and befuddling. And I keep going back to them.

This is a band that hasn’t been too concerned about adhering to a single style or genre but you know a Liars album when you hear one. Liars’ music packs a punch whether it is coming from an electronic album like Mess or more of a post-punk release like 2004’s They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. (Liars released its first album almost a dozen years ago. Mess is the seventh full-length release.) This latest album shows a band that’s still willing to tinker with its sound for the better.  There’s an addictive quality to Mess, a dark and (at times) ominous album. Definitely give it more than one listen.

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