Tag: Angus Andrew

THEY WERE WRONG, SO WE DROWNED (2004)

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They Were Wrong So We Drowned

Artist: Liars
Label: Mute
Producer: David Sitek, Liars
Cover art: Beate Schlingelhoff-Gross
Length: 40:42

‘I NO LONGER want to be a man, I want to be a horse,’ Angus Andrew chants on “Broken Witch”, the opening track of Liars’ second full-length album, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. A statement of intent, this incantation expresses not just a wish for transcendence from humanity, but the band’s messy transformation from your garden-variety dance-punk act into a herd of untamed art-punk weirdos.

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LIARS

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Liars

…I left Australia when I was young, so being anywhere – in America, or Berlin – I feel like an alien.

Angus Andrew, The Quietus, 2010

Formed: New York, USA, 2000

Featured album: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (2004)

YOU NEVER KNOW quite where you stand with Liars. One minute they’re making you shake your butt and tap your feet with their funky dancepunk; the next they’re freaking you out with experimental concept albums, or creating their most intimate and personal music using synthesisers. It’s part of the appeal of this art-punk trio, for whom restlessness is a perpetual state of being.

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