'Plaster Casts Of Everything' by the Liars is an upbeat, dramatic, repetitive, heavy, dirty, scuzzy, intense beast from this schizoid band. Catchy and simultaneously noisy. Quality alternative rock music. It's like The Stooges cossed with Can which is just about the greatest combination known to man/ woman. I need a bath after listening to this one. Out on Mute. Phil & Ant x
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What their label says...
Liars release a single, Plaster Casts Of Everything, on 6th August
2007 on CD, 7” and download. The CD comes backed with Mimic The
Hurricano while the 7” (on cyan coloured vinyl) has Volcano Police on
the flip side.
Geographically, personally and most of all
musically, each successive album that Liars release comes with a new
agenda, a new heritage, a new set of reference points and a new way of
thinking about music. Liars, recorded on the heels of 2006’s Drum's Not
Dead somewhere between LA and Berlin, marks another bold transition for
Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross, this time exchanging
theory for a more practical approach, one based on traditional song
structures and instrument usage.
“I’d never felt like a
songwriter ‘til this album,” explains Angus. “If you told me last year
Liars would release a record like this, I would have laughed. If you
said I’d be playing guitar solos, I’d have called you a liar. We never
know what we’re making ‘til it’s made… this time I’m a bit shocked.”