They Can’t Get Out

Liars “I Saw You From the Lifeboat”

I saw Liars perform at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art two weeks ago, but I didn’t write anything about it. It was a pretty amazing show – they played mostly brand new songs, and all of them were instantly powerful and exciting. (I can still very clearly remember the hook of one of the more aggressive numbers – “Fact is fact and fiction’s fiction.”) They performed as an almost entirely electronic act, and all of the new material essentially merges the dramatic, more overtly pop structures of Sisterworld with the icy, electronic textures of WIXIW. It’s exceptional stuff. This song, recently released as a free single, wasn’t performed, but should give you a sense of what they’re up to – that main keyboard riff sounds like metal to me, but it’s rendered like an 8 bit video game soundtrack. But it doesn’t seem cute or nostalgic at all – they manage to make it evoke dread as much as if it was played on a guitar with drop D tuning.

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