6 Liars

The Apple Drop is the 10th studio album from Liars. Recorded in Australia with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike and multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, mixing their raw, organic live instrumentation with Angus's solo tinkering at the computer, resulting in an album that blurs boundaries between the archetypal band structure and experimental electronics.

"Mess" is the seventh studio album by music trio Liars, released on Mute Records. This follow up to 2012's "WIXIW" is an angry, ecstatic, primal burst of ritualistic synth-rock that sacrifices self persecution for potent, purposeful abandon. Liars' career has seen the band rattle through pigeonholes in an attempt to avoid them all together: brittle yet taught punk funk; liminal no-wave; ecstatic noise-pop; 21st-century garage rock; post-millennial post-rock; delicate electronics; reaching here, where Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross now find themselves.

The Apple Drop is the 10th studio album from Liars. Recorded in Australia with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike and multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, mixing their raw, organic live instrumentation with Angus’s solo tinkering at the computer, resulting in an album that blurs boundaries between the archetypal band structure and experimental electronics. The album feels distinctly and recognisably Liars, yet also fresh and singular. Rich textures overlap with engulfing ambience, before giving way to eruptive blasts of noise, crackling electronics and thrashing drums.

Liars have, as a matter of course, sounded radically different with each album, pursuing new concepts and occupying diverse mind-sets. On this, Liars' eighth studio album, the bustling backdrops of Los Angeles, Berlin and New York have been replaced with a presence far more intimate and autobiographical as Liars once again boldly step out of their comfort zone into vastly new musical territory.

In hindsight, it's possible to hear some of the profound loneliness of Liars' next album TFCF and the disorienting washes of Hemphill's subsequent work as Nonpareils in this score, and for that reason alone, 1/1 is more than just a commissioned work as much as any one release from this band could, it sums up their approach and points the way forward. In some ways, it feels like a more subdued, mostly instrumental version of Mess, one where they cycle through moods and shift textures but rarely heighten them beyond their initial parameters. Still: setting mood has always been one of Liars' strengths, even if 1/1 feels more like a curio than an essential part of the canon.

Import only digitally remastered two CD collection. 36 tracks by this British band, who announced their official break-up in early 2007. Originally formed at the tail end of the '80s by former Housemartins members Paul Heaton (vocals) and David Hemmingway (drums/vocals), The Beautiful South have become a hit-making machine in Europe, with songs that contain witty and/or thought provoking lyrics wrapped inside a lush, jazzy, semi-acoustic and soulful musical blanket.. Practically all of their hits are featured here including 'I'll Sail This Ship Alone', 'Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)', 'Song for Whoever', 'Don't Marry Her', 'Old Red Eyes Is Back', 'Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)', 'Liar's Bar' and many others. The band may be gone, but their music lives on! Universal.