Liars (Liars album)

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Liars
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 28, 2007 (2007-08-28)
Recorded2007 at Planet Roc, Berlin
Genre Experimental rock
Length39:06
Label Mute
Producer Liars and Jeremy Glover
Liars chronology
Drum's Not Dead
(2006)
Liars
(2007)
Sisterworld
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
NME (8/10) [3]
Pitchfork Media (8.5/10) [4]
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Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Stylus Magazine B+ [7]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [8]
Drowned In Sound (9/10) [9]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT empty.svgTMT empty.svgTMT empty.svg [10]

Liars is the fourth studio album by the band Liars, released on August 28, 2007. The album was recorded at Planet Roc, Los Angeles and was produced by the band and Jeremy Glover.

Contents

The album was preceded by a week by the single release of "Plaster Casts of Everything". The single release of Plaster Casts was accompanied by a videoclip. The song "Freak Out" was #91 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. [11]

"Plaster Casts of Everything" was listed in Pitchfork Media's "Top 500 songs of the 2000s" at #248.

The track "Leather Prowler" was used as the instrumental for "Leather Head" by Tyler, The Creator for his alternative hip-hop collective OFWGKTA's mixtape Radical .

The Moodswinger, built for Aaron Hemphill, used on the track "Leather Prowler" Moodswinger.jpg
The Moodswinger, built for Aaron Hemphill, used on the track "Leather Prowler"

Track listing

  1. "Plaster Casts of Everything" – 3:56
  2. "Houseclouds" – 3:21
  3. "Leather Prowler" – 4:25
  4. "Sailing to Byzantium" – 4:02
  5. "What Would They Know" – 3:11
  6. "Cycle Time" – 2:16
  7. "Freak Out" – 2:30
  8. "Pure Unevil" – 3:52
  9. "Clear Island" – 2:38
  10. "The Dumb in the Rain" – 4:21
  11. "Protection" – 4:30

Personnel

Liars

'Liars' Session EP

On October 24, 2007, four tracks were available for free download from Liars' MySpace page. [12] [13]

The track list is composed of demo versions of the following songs from the album:

  1. "Cycle Time" – 2:24
  2. "Houseclouds" – 3:27
  3. "Pure Unevil" – 3:58
  4. "Plaster Casts of Everything" – 4:02

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