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| n/a by Popmatters |
Mixing the grit that was The Stooges with the bounce that was Gang of Four, Liars and their debut release are everything that should be praised about Brooklyn's music scene. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
An intense fifty minute ride through the minds of one of the best new bands to emerge in recent memory. |
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| n/a by www.almostcool.org |
The brief disc contains enough gusto and punch to get your spastic swerve on heartily. |
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| n/a by www.splendidezine.com |
While they don't quite have the cross-gender appeal of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the pouty disagreeability of the Strokes or the urbane refinement of the Walkmen, they heedlessly summon the spirits of post-punk monoliths like PiL, A Certain Ratio and the Pop Group without forsaking their gritty New Yawk-ian roots. |
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| n/a by NME |
Nailed to the dancefloor by Flea-like bassist Pat Nature, and dragged up to date by hip-hop beats and random electronica, musically Liars are taut as a tightrope. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
Whether they're shrieking or pleading, dancing or shivering, they're always exuding an intensity that never fails to find a way to hit you hard, really hard. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
A ramshackle, art-damaged mess, but it's also one of the most bone-rattlingly ferocious records you'll hear all year. |
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| n/a by www.trouserpress.com |
An exciting mix of audacious punk rock stammering held together by such disparate art-rock nomenclature and tendencies as vocal transmutation, discordant climaxes and ironic herky-jerky rhythms. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Liars got the punk wave thing down, but what makes them more interesting than their peers is their willingness to explore beyond the edges of the new-wave box. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
While their found object gimmickry is a novel enough enticement, the Liars' solid stop/start rhythm section is what keeps the junkyard noise spastically danceable. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
The lyrics, insincere as they are, grate somewhat, but the spastic grove cannot be denied they're a bit like a pervy, conservative Devo, with more earwax. |
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