… so Liars, a band who refuse to revisit their past, have made their own, and their 5th studio album is their best record yet “I remember saying that by the time we got to the fifth record it would either be a Christmas album or a Samba one. I imagined we would be really old and that we wouldn’t be interested in making music any more, but that’s obviously not the case.” So says Liars frontman Angus Andrews at his record label’s HQ. A lot has changed since the turn of the century when that prediction first crept into his mind; the soon to be released ‘Sisterworld’ is neither Samba nor wintry themed and it’s taken the band ten years to arrive at. For many the idea of creating and releasing five albums remains nothing but a milestone that is never reached, many bands falling foul to either in-band fighting, label politics or the age old cliché ‘musical differences’ long before.Yet it would be wrong to assume that Liars’ journey has been a straightforward one. Aaron Hemphill summarises that the initial steps were placed when “we got back from a very long US tour. Right after that we were introduced to Mute and agreed to do that deal. A little bit afterwards a lot of our friends who were in bands that are a little bit more commercial were offered deals,” he continues. “We were kind of like, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen to them? Did we fuck up?’ Obviously not – some of the problems they have had to deal with, with their labels, they’ve tried to relate those to us and we’re like, ‘God, you actually have to ask them if you can write?’ It’s beyond us.” Though they were initially considered part of the happening Brooklyn scene, alongside bands such as The Rapture,Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Walkmen, Liars did not feel they had to retread past steps over and over, nor continue along the same route. “We like to keep it fresh and try new things every time,” says Angus. “We’re that purple word ‘eclectic’; our interests are pretty wide ranging and we’re still scratching the surface on what all those are.There’s so many different types of music and different ways of making it that you can literally for each record stop everything you’ve figured out so far and pick up all brand new ways of doing www.loudandquiet.com
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