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but "Sounds like a really fun Battles or a more melodic Health or maybe just like Liars with laptops." gives me the raging horn

but this is fucking brilliant!

It does have a bit of HEALTH but remixed HI-NRG.

I'm excited. Not quite raging horn though.

When the chorus explodes for the first time! :D

Was one of the better songs if I recall correctly, liking it!

speaking of health, what have they been up to recently?

It's been knocking around since the live performance

Also, slightly nu-rave.

can imagine this one being quite successful

WIXIW was electro but still had Liars' trademark skronk to it. This is a bit straight club banger.

https://soundcloud.com/liarsliarsliars/liars-mess-on-a-mission

listened.

saw this thread.
listened to the track another five times. still a belter.
posted this post for you to read.

So so good, also absolutely need to hear these songs live in a club.

First half is like some sort of crushing monster apocalypse rave, and then simmers down for a calmer, weirder second half. Superb.

Doesn't sound particularly nu-rave to me, maybe more Underworld-ish I would say...

Banging! What a fun album. I can't wait till work is over so I can listen to it on the way home.

This is so so good. Really rich sounding too actually.

but is actually one of its weakest tracks it's just THAT GOOD

loved sisterworld so much, and pretty much nothing else of theirs (although drums not dead was alright). shame

that feel reminiscent of 'They Were Wrong', in their wonky loops.

I've heard a couple of tracks and i'm super excited to hear it in its entirety, they never fail to amaze!

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/16/286421233/first-listen-liars-mess

The album is great mind, but it's that track, which IMO is the most affecting work they've done since drum's not dead

...is special. They've gone back to making the last track of the album mournful and beautiful, as with 'Flow My Tears' and 'Protection'. I loved WIXIW but stopped listening to it quite quickly; this has revived my enthusiasm for the whole back catalogue.

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147541-messy-lesson--how-liars-are-setting-the-blueprint-for-electro-transformation

I saw them do most of these songs in Brighton, summer of last year. It was brilliant, though I have to caveat that by saying I was high/drunk possibly both.

I'm a long term Liars fan so really not bothered by an about turn or a change in sound but this record is just dull until 'Mess on a Mission,' the second half of the record is much more like it. They are soooooo much better than a steady 4/4.

I still love Liars and I'll be seeing them live when they come my way but I think they are getting too mucgh credit for quite a lazy, derivative record.

Am I in a minority of one in saying WIXIW was better?

by the sounds of it, much in the way that you are with this – sounded to me like sub-DND tracks and that everyone was just getting excited because they'd 'gone electronic'. Stuck with it and found it to be an incredible grower. I've taken to this one much more immediately but can tell that as I warm to the change in sound a bit more I'm going to get even more from it. I think what I love about Liars is that the style is always striking, for better or worse with everything they do, but the songs underneath are (assuming you generally like Liars) always really solid and consistent in their sneery oddball attitude.

The only album of theirs I actually have in my collection is the self titled which I borrowed from a friend who wanted me to go along and see them. It's an album I love bits of and am completely nonplussed by other parts of (seem to remember really enjoying them live though) and that's pretty much been my reaction to listening to streams of every album they've done since.

Absolutely no bloody clue what to think of this one either - the most I can say is that they are consistent.

Probably the most I've enjoyed listening to an album of their since DND. They've always struck me as a band that could easily go ELECTRONIK but XWIXWHATEVA almost didn't dip its toe in enough for my liking. Far superior to Scissorworld and S/T I reckon, though I've only had 4 or 5 listens so far

Always really enjoyed the odd track, but this is the first album I can really get behind. Great stuff, should be right up there at the end of the year. I love the fade-out bit in the middle of I'm No Gold.

Because they always come across as one of the most interesting indie bands, then I listen to them... Because even if I didn't like the last one or the one before it or the one before it etc at least they do something different everytime so you may as well give them a go. But damn this sounds like that time in history no one wanted post Ed Banger and pre Nu Rave when a load of Australian bands didn't get the memo that it sounded like shit and was no fun.

It was really fun when they were playing it live last year at Porto though

Sounds immense though, especially after the plinky plonk Metronomy album I've been listening too. Did you know you pronounce WIXIW as 'Wish You' ?

fuck da h8ers

sounds like Guy McKnight fronting a NIN tribute band.