ARTIST: Liars
TITLE: Drum's Not Dead
LABEL: Mute
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 206kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 47min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-21
RIP DATE: 2006-01-03
Track List
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01. Be Quiet Mt. Heart Attack! 3:28
02. Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart 4:31
Attack
03. A Visit From Drum 4:19
04. Drum Gets A Glimpse 4:14
05. It Fit When I Was A Kid 4:02
06. The Wrong Coat For You Mt. 3:59
Heart Attack
07. Hold You, Drum 4:42
08. It's All Blooming Now Mt. 3:09
Heart Attack
09. Drum And The Uncomfortable Can 4:55
10. You, Drum 1:15
11. To Hold You, Drum 4:04
12. The Other Side Of Mt. Heart 4:45
Attack
Release Notes:
Liars-Drums_Not_Dead-PROMO_CD-2006-BPM was a webrip and is nuked. Here's the
real deal, enjoy. Scan included.
Liars release their next album in Spring 2006, which features the recent single
It Fit When I Was A Kid.
March 21st will see the release of Drum's Not Dead, via Mute. It is the
follow-up to 2004's They Were Wrong, So We Drowned.
The new album contains 12 tracks as well as a bonus DVD, featuring three movies
made by the band themselves.
Liars was conceived in November 2000 after two friends and ex-Los Angeles art
students Aaron Hemphill and Angus Andrew reunited in New York City. They
responded to a "musicians wanted" ad posted in a local record store by two
Nebraskans, Pat Noecker and Ron Albertson. The lurching Aussie Andrew took on
the vocal/frontman duties while Hemphill became their guitarist and
drum-machine programmer. Bassist Noecker and drummer Albertson make up the
Liars' rhythm section. Combined, they write music exhibiting fundamental
elements of punk rock that is surprisingly formulated after the beats are laid
down on the drum machine. Synthetic keypads, vocal modulation, and these
interspersed pre-arranged compositions, mixed with their guitar-bass-drums
equation, create angular yet melodic songs. Liars is reminiscent of U.K. groups
who embraced dance music during the late '70s/early '80s - A Certain Ratio,
Gang of Four, the Slits - bands who are all insidiously known for adding
danceable rhythms to punk.
Only months after forming, the group played its first show. Liars' debut album,
They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, was released on
independent Gern Blandsten Records in October 2001 and was later reissued by
Blast First/Mute. The album was recorded in just two days by producer/engineer
Steve Revitte, who's best known for this work with the Beastie Boys and Lee
"Scratch" Perry. Late the following year, Noecker and Albertson left the band
and percussionist Julian Gross was recruited as a replacement. The trio began
recording the second Liars album at Andrew's house in the forests of New Jersey
with friend and co-producer Dave Sitek. The results, They Were Wrong, So We
Drowned, which was inspired by experimental electronic music and German legends
about witchcraft, arrived in early 2004.