Mess

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AlbumMar 25 / 201411 songs, 55m 17s
Electro-Industrial Electroclash New Rave
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6.9 / 10

Mess is the first Liars album that could be given a “dance-” hyphenate since their debut; it’s physical, bodymoving music for people who don’t have much interest in proper dance music.

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Since the group’s inception in 2000, dance-thrashers Liars have barreled down abysmal spirals to reach clarity. From the punk-stomp of 2004’s They Were Wrong, So We Drowned to the bleary-eyed atmospherics of their last, WIXIW, there’s always a palatable dread hovering over the trio’s work.

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Having pursued a more ethereal sound last time around, Liars are back to their noisy, antagonistic best.

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In recent interviews, Liars’ Angus Andrew has spoken about the duality of how a mess can be perceived—beauty to some,…

Check out our album review of Artist's Mess on Rolling Stone.com.

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More than many other bands, Liars are guided by an overall aesthetic rather than dedication to any particular sound.

Liars’ seventh album is undeniably, blatantly a Mute Records album, not just in practical terms but also in spiritual terms; the album plays like a homage to the glory days of the label, coursing through D.A.F. affectations, highly-strung synths right out of Nitzer Ebb’s armoury and wonky excursions through Depeche Mode’s more outré dalliances, or, more recently, their VCMG offshoot.

8 / 10

Taking the damaged electronic approach from WIXIW further and deeper, Liars have created an album of themes that would suit the runways of some post-apocalyptic version of Fashion Week.

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God bless Liars. While virtually everyone in the avant rock class of the Aughts (that loosely started with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and ended with HEALTH) either cleaned up their acts and graduated or just dropped out, Liars are streaking the graduation ceremony w

8 / 10

Album review: Liars, 'Mess'. Album seven from the LA-based band stares terror in the face – and decides to dance...

Mess may be Liars’ darkest album, which is saying a lot for a band so well versed in cultic, gloomy theatrics.

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Northern Transmissions' Review of "Mess" the new LP from from Liars. Mess comes out March 25th on Mute records. Liars play live March 26th in Mecca, CA

Album Reviews: Liars - Mess

Dark and brooding electronica from LA's musical magpies. CD review by Guy Oddy