aaamusic | On 02, Apr 2012

‘WIXIW’ is released on Mute on 4 June 2012 and is their sixth studio album and the follow up to 2010’s critically lauded ‘Sisterworld’ (The Quietus’ Album of the Year, #9 in the NME’s Albums of the Year who said of the album “…this incredible album is your passport to a better place.”).

 

Liars will return to Europe for live dates including Field Day – 2 June, and a series of intimate shows, including London’s XOYO – 12 June and Manchester’s Ruby Lounge – 15 June (full list below).

 

The title, ‘WIXIW’, is explained by Angus Andrew, “’wish you’ is a familiar and universal sentiment of longing and hope, but when misspelt becomes uniquely shrouded and difficult to interpret, which in many ways is representative of our music and the songs we wrote for this album”.

 

He continues, “the word being a palindrome offered us some comfort, and came from superstitious behavior that was the result of extreme uncertainty and doubt. The word and spelling struck us because it seemed to exude a special quality or power.”

 

Recorded in LA, self-produced by the band with additional production from Daniel Miller and mixed by Tom Biller, the album, is hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to get out of one’s head even after an initial listen. Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, it is both a summation of Liars’ work up to now, and a complete break from anything you’d ever heard the band do previously.

 

“If we aren’t confusing people, it’s not us,” Andrew laughs. “If we aren’t confusing ourselves with what we do, then we’ve failed.”

 

‘WIXIW’ TRACKLISTING

 

The Exact Colour Of Doubt

Octagon

No.1 Against The Rush

A Ring On Every Finger

Ill Valley Prodigies

WIXIW

His And Mine Sensations

Flood To Flood

Who Is The Hunter

Brats

Annual Moon Words

 

Listen to ‘No.1 Against The Rush’ here:

http://www.facebook.com/LiarsOfficial

LIVE DATES

 

2 June – Field Day, London

7 June – Nouveau Casino, Paris

8 June – Tivoli De Helling, Utrecht

9 June – AB Club, Brussels

10 June – Roter Salon der Volksbühne, Berlin

12 June – XOYO, London

15 June – Ruby Lounge, Manchester

 

Watch a series of video teasers created by the band on their Tumblr, which have given rise to much speculation on where this ever evolving, ever influential band are headed: http://amateurgore.tumblr.com/