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| 1 by Rolling Stone |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
In the same way Radiohead took an impeccable album like OK Computer and stepped into unfamiliar territory with Kid A, Liars have sidestepped the majority of their familiar styles and broken free towards new explorations. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
Though it might not be the most easily digestible subject matter, it melds thought and execution as well as any concept album in recent memory. |
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| n/a by www.filter-mag.com |
It’s hard to tell if the band wants us to revel along in their psychosis or throw up our hands with disgust. |
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| n/a by www.splendidezine.com |
A fascinatingly cinematic, image-laden and claustrophobic album that feels like the someone else's nightmare. |
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| n/a by www.logo-magazine.com |
There’s nothing even remotely punk-funk here, instead conventional structures are stretched, shattered and re-assembled. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
For such menacing music, the overall effect is oddly inviting. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Tapping in to our fearful collective unconscious, Liars have conjured a darkly mesmeric, thrillingly full-blooded, paranoid drama of ritual and occultism built from twitchy electronica, shrieking vintage synths, punk noise and unsettlingly twisted hip hop. |
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| n/a by Junkmedia |
The concept is difficult to follow and the music occasionally unpleasant. But the band’s willingness to stretch in new directions is refreshing. |
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| n/a by www.nytimes.com |
The first time through, the album is as much an endurance test as an entertainment, reaching back to New York rock's most raucous no-wave experiments of the late 1970's and also echoing vanguardists like Merzbow and This Heat. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
Anyone expecting a breakout album by a group poised to break out might be left wanting. But as a lateral move to post-punk's crinkly margins, They Were Wrong is an ante-upping exercise, as entrancing as it is bracing. |
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| n/a by www.almostcool.org |
While it doesn't work stunningly as a whole, there are places where the group comes together to create dark and blistering rock tracks that stand with the best work they've ever done. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Contrary to what some have claimed, They Were Wrong is listenable, and intentionally so: the band frequently finds ways to successfully straddle the fence between form and noise... though most of the time, it's admittedly impenetrable and alienating. |
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| n/a by NME |
Ultimately, we’re left wondering: have Liars lost it, or found themselves? |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
Frequently unpleasant, but consistently interesting. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
Though some sections are plodding and one-dimensional, others lock into place. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
'They Were Wrong, So We Drowned' is a remarkably assured second album, and considerably more audacious than its predecessor, but it's a far from flawless affair. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
A gigantic step backward. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
The idiosyncratic intellectualism, the schrapnels of noise, and the outlandish creative liberties are still there, but without the funk these elements are uncomfortably exposed, like a naked body standing shivering in the cold. |
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