Next week, Liars return with their new album WIXIW, the follow-up to 2010′s Sisterworld. Every new Liars album is different from the last, and this one finds them playing around with extreme-sheen synth textures and zoned-out disco-prog expansiveness. We’ve already heard the early tracks “No. 1 Against The Rush&...

As revealed by Angus Andrew in a recent Progress Report, Liars are experimenting with some new textural territory, mining more electronic sounds and beats. We got a sense of that on the first single, “No. 1 Against The Rush,” but it’s even more apparent on the newly surfaced “Octagon,” a track a ...

Last week, we posted a remix of Liars’ new single “No. 1 Against The Rush” from synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke. And today, we’ve got a very different reworking of that same track, this time from the playful and conceptually bent IDM duo Matmos, who transform the song into a gliding, skittering pileup of dru...

If synthpop royalty is a thing that exists, Vince Clarke is it, straight up. Clarke is a founding member of Depeche Mode (before they turned gothy), Yaz, and Erasure, and if you’re making a move toward keyboards on your new album, he’s probably the guy you want remixing it. Liars, who already had the Mute [...]

Evident from our chat with the band as well as the new single “No. 1 Against The Rush,” Liars will be experimenting with new electronic textures on their forthcoming, highly anticipated WIXIW. Recently, the band recorded a short mini doc that serves as a pretty good visual walkthrough of what to expect. Watch it below. [...]