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Sled Island 2009 Recap

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) July 2, 2009 1:39 pm
CHARTattack's Trevor Morelli checked out Calgary's Sled Island Music Festival from June 24-28. Here's his report: Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett may be a man of few words, but it was the fans at Calgary's third annual Sled Island Music Festival that were left speechless after his show. With handmade "Sold Out" signs plastered all over...
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Liars — Liars

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) August 12, 2008 2:52 pm
It's fair to say that you just can't pin Liars down. At first they were a punk band, snotty like Blur at their darkest and noisy like Sonic Youth at their most dangerous. Liars Pt. 2 was regarded by most to be an indistinguishable noise mess, a disappointment to even their biggest fans. Liars III again represented a major shift in direction, as...
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Liars — Drum's Not Dead

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 21, 2006 10:32 am
The Liars tone down the abrasive sonic assault of their last album, They Were Wrong So We Drowned, for a less outwardly evil and more conceptual bad trip this time around. The album is built around two character traits (no mistake, it's a confusing concept record) — Drum (assertive, creative, productive) and Mount Heart Attack (stressed, self-...
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Liars — They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 24, 2004 10:57 am
If you've ever wondered what listening to Kid A, obsessively re-reading free jazz reviews in The Wire and going off your medication during the holidays would translate into musically, you now have your answer. New York noise provocateurs Liars are the alchemists in question and the resulting concoction is their second album, They Were Wrong So We...
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Liars Aren't Nihilists, Just Realists

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 16, 2010 2:30 pm
It's pretty incredible to listen to the difference between the Liars of 2001 and the Liars of today. The group on 2001's They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top was bratty, tuneless and wrongly lumped in with the dance-punk also-rans of that era. The young Liars also barely knew how to write a song, let alone play their...
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The Besnard Lakes Roar Up To #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) March 30, 2010 12:51 pm
After months of no change at the top of the campus chart, the flood gates have opened with two straight weeks of displacement at #1. The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night was a dark horse to hit #1 last week, but The Besnard Lakes' eight position rise allows them to grab the top spot on the campus chart for the week of March 21 to 27. The...
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Liars Don't Understand Slam Poetry's Place In Olympics

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 18, 2010 4:06 pm
It's the middle of February when I talk to Liars frontman Angus Andrews, and he's confused. The source of this confusion is not how his band's new album, Sisterworld, leaked to the Internet more than three months early. It's also not why the group haven't achieved much success in his native Australia. No, Andrews is confounded by Canadians — or...
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Liars — Sisterworld

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) March 9, 2010 5:26 pm
Liars have charted a rather strange course over their career. They began as a one of New Yorks top dance-punk bands, but the trio ditched the post-punk motifs on their second disc, alienating critics and fans alike. They then decamped to Berlin to record the weird rhythm-heavy Drum's Not Dead to unanimous acclaim. But Sisterworld, their fifth...
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Liars — "Scissor"

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By CHARTattack Staff February 17, 2010 5:13 pm
Liars' Angus Andrew awakes in a life raft next to a strange rock in the video for Sisterhood's "Scissor." He drops it back into the ocean, only to discover more rocks have spontaneously generated in the raft, which is now filling with water because the rocks are completely taking it over. What follows is a complete freakout and a boat...
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Liars Album Features Remixes From Thom Yorke, TV On The Radio, Deerhunter Members

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 8, 2010 1:10 pm
Liars will release an extended version of their upcoming fifth studio album, Sisterworld, which will feature remixes by some pretty important people in the indie rock world. Radiohead's Thom Yorke, TV On The Radio singer Tunde Adebimpe, Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, The Melvins, Alan Vega of Suicide, Chris & Cosey and Blonde Redhead have remixed...
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Liars Have Free Track, Album Update

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) December 8, 2009 3:04 pm
Liars will release their fifth studio album, Sisterworld on March 9. The album is the follow up to their 2007 self-titled release. "Scissor," Sisterworld's first track, was made available on the band's website on Tuesday (Dec. 8) as a free download. Liars — made up of Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross — have been...
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Liars To Release New Album In 2010

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) November 4, 2009 2:52 pm
Liars will release their fifth studio album, Sisterworld, in early 2010. The disc is the follow up to their 2007 self-titled release. Sisterworld marks a return to Los Angeles for the band, who haven't recorded an album entirely in the United States since 2004's They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. The band worked with Tom Biller (Kanye West, Beck...
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Liars Freak Out On New EP

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 10, 2008 3:30 pm
Liars are no strangers to freaking out — they performed one of their songs in an elevator on La Blogotheque's Take-Away Shows using nothing but their palms on its walls, and their experimental sounds have elicited both delight and disdain from critics and fans alike. They'll freak out in a different way when Mute Records releases their Freak Out...
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Liars Take The Self-Titled Route With Fourth Album

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By Lindsay Craig (CHARTattack) June 20, 2007 4:00 pm
Los Angeles art-punk band Liars will also use their name as the title of their Aug. 28 release through Mute. The follow-up to last year's Drum's Not Dead concept album will be available on white vinyl, CD and as a digital download. Australian-born frontman Angus Andrew and percussionist/guitarist Aaron Hemphill formed Liars in 2000 with bassist...
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Believe It Or Not, Liars Say They Don't Make Weird Music

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By Emma Sadowski (CHARTattack) June 6, 2006 4:30 pm
Liars frontman Angus Andrew claims that the band's newly released Drum's Not Dead album isn't based around a concept. Yet the album appears to be rich in thematic meaning and substance. "The challenge is to make something that is completely lacking in meaning," says Andrew. "At the stage we're at right now, it seems that we...
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