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US band will play gigs in Bristol, Liverpool and London later this year

Heaven knows what would become of Liars if Angus Andrew ever stopped innovating. Just as scientists have suggested that sharks can never stop swimming or else they’ll drown, the LA-based trio have been determined for nearly 15 years to always keep moving on to the next project, the next idea, the next sound. From antsy-dance punk (2001 debut ‘They...

The band's seventh studio album will be released on March 24

The release will follow last year's 'WIXIW' LP

And suddenly NYC/Australian trio Liars are Underworld. And good holy Christ it's amazing, if rhythmical dirge is your thing. And if it isn't, why isn't it? And if you aren't dancing, why aren't you? Helpfully, the video to 'Brats' features a man with a paper bag on his head doing the kind of dancing literally anyone can do. Dancing's...

Errors, Tall Ships, Cold Specks are also booked for the inaugral Norwich event

Rules are made to be broken, but the classy iconoclast knows you need to learn the rules first so that you can break them properly. LA-based professional pin-dodgers Liars no sooner establish the parameters of a sound than they’re crashing through them. The trio’s past five records have seen them move from the abrasive dance-punk of their debut, through...

One of the tenser moments from new album 'WIXIW', this creepy mechanoid meandering is like being trapped in the pouch of a robotic mother kangaroo as it hops down the central reservation of the dystopia freeway and Angus Andrew cruises alongside, slurring drunkenly. Funtimes! Emily Mackay Liars - Octagon by Mute UK

Having been lucky enough to have an early peek at two Liars albums now, I can still feel the skull-rattling shock delivered when ‘Scissor’, the first track to be released from ‘Sisterworld’, suddenly maimed the brain with brutal noise, having lulled it with sparse beginnings. This, the lead-off track from its follow-up, is a very different kind of comeback....

Band will drop new LP and play gigs this June