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Liars return to Montreal after murdering electropop on their latest release

Liars’ albums are like incantations, howls in the wilderness laced with high concept superstition.

Their music is marked by a fearless desire to step out of the circle of expectations and to cast their own spells, raising the undead spirit of rock to dance around the bonfire of our vanities. On their sixth and latest album, WIXIW, Liars gloomily circle their wagons around electropop and take a stab at joy. Pilgrims in a strange land, Liars’ interpret electropop through a psychedelic rock lens that magnifies pop’s sunshine into a burning, forlorn joy that singes pop and digs up electro to reveal it’s rock roots buried deeply in the 80s.

No matter the instruments or idioms explored by Liars, they always sound resolutely like themselves. There’s (thankfully) no escaping their signature song structures, intensity, pervasive gloomy brilliance and morose vocals tinged with regret and longing. Despite Liars’ signature intensity, WIXIW is a gentler, kinder album that trades in fury and fire for smoldering emotion, evocative synths, electro rhythms and atmospheric angst. Like the calm and release after a thunderstorm, or the smoldering last embers of a dying fire, the songs on WIXIW are enticing, drawing you into the arcane world they’ve constructed and deconstructed over the course of their six albums.

Liars’ stab at joy leaves it wounded and bleeding, but this only makes it all the more human. While other bands exploit the gloss of electropop with shallow irony, Liars revive its soul with rock and roll and dig deeper to uncover its earnest heart. The forlornly joyous division between optimism and despair, and rock and electro, is both profound and healing.

WIXIW is a musical incantation that’s as magical, wistful, and elegant, and full of the strangeness of life and living, as anything they’ve done so far. Not afraid of what lurks in the dark, hidden heart of electropop, The Liars have created yet another beautiful thing.

Liars
July 23 | La Sala Rossa
4848, St. Laurent
with Cadence Weapon
liarsliarsliars.com

Thre band will also hold a free meet and greet
July 22 | Espace POP
5587, Parc
2PM

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