Liars
They Were Wrong So We Drowned

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Fear is a very powerful emotion.The last band to so expertly execute the cocktail of menace and artful, brilliant chaos that Liars achieve for their second album, "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned", were fellow New Yorkers Sonic Youth, when they cut their epochal Bad Moon Rising album. It's a record from a band in transition, severing their ties with the scene they kinda inaugurated and have now, decidedly, outgrown. A band defining themselves only in terms of what they wish to achieve, the limits of their imagination. A band withdrawing to a basement deep in the wilds somewhere and letting their every little wrinkle of rampant creativity and twisted genius seep deep into the shadows of this most poignant and chilling ghost story.This story begins where the first chapter of Liars history ended, with the release of their debut album, "They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top", a literate and deranged acceleration of post-punk groove, avant noise, bizarre pop sensibilities and an enduring love for the minimal funk of ESG. Operating from the kooky artsy enclave of hip that was Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Liars then numbering singer Angus Andrew (born in the Philippines, raised in Australia, resident in NYC for some time), guitarist Aaron Hemphill (a West Coast native), bassist Pat Nature and drummer Ron Albertson (both hailing from Lincoln, Nebraska) slayed locals with chaotic and brilliant live shows that sowed seeds for the subsequent punk-funk revival that's so wantonly hip nowadays.