Liars Announce Release Of New Album 'WIXIW' & Stream New Track 'No.1 Against The Rush'
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
Liars – Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross – have announced further details of their eagerly awaited new album. Titled 'WIXIW' (pronounced “wish you”), the 11-track album will be preceded by a single (out 28th May), 'No.1 Against The Rush'.
'WIXIW' is released on Mute on 4th June 2012 and is their sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2010’s critically lauded 'Sisterworld'.
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 behaviour 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.”
“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.”
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.
'WIXIW' track-listing is as follows:
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
Liars will return to Europe for live dates including Field Day on 2nd June, and a series of intimate shows, including London’s XOYO on 12th June and Manchester’s Ruby Lounge on 15th June.
June 2nd – Field Day, London
June 7th – Nouveau Casino, Paris
June 8th – Tivoli De Helling, Utrecht
June 9th – AB Club, Brussels
June 10th – Roter Salon der Volksbühne, Berlin
June 12th - XOYO, London
June 15th – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
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