Weirdos and other smart people rejoice, for new Liars music is coming! Via Mute Records:

The band, currently finishing the album at their studio in LA, have said that work on the new album was “almost the exact opposite experience to producing WIXIW”. WIXIW saw Liars experimenting with unfamiliar techniques, and, according to Angus Andrew, “Instead of being doubtful, work on the new album has been immediate, fun, instinctual and confident”. Learning from their experiences with WIXIW has found the band embracing spontaneity and, as Andrew explains, “Creation for creation’s sake. No rules. No mistakes’.

Liars, of course, famously made art-punks shake their asses with They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top in 2002, only to then completely baffle them with its breathtakingly brilliant and initially misunderstood follow-up They Were Wrong So We Drowned, and then proceeded to scare the crap out of everyone with the justly acclaimed and massively creepy Drum’s Not Dead. A couple of relatively normal albums followed, but the band curveballed their audience yet again with last years’ WIXIW (pronounced like saying “wish you” while sneezing), a grand electronic experiment that constituted very nearly as ambitious a creative leap for Liars as Kid A did for Radiohead. This new material seems to be in a similar vein, though there’s only about a minute to go on, so who knows? It’s a safe enough bet that the two songs the band released online last spring, “Perfume Tear” and “I Saw You From the Lifeboat,” will be representative. No title for the forthcoming LP has been announced, but the band has released these three teaser videos.
 

 
More brief moments from the upcoming Liars album and more, after the jump…

 
Liars’ unsettling creepy-crawler of an album, Sisterworld was one of my favorite albums of 2010, so I’m thrilled to hear that their new album, WIXIW (pronounced “wish you”) is coming out next week.

WIXIW seems to be a real departure from Sisterworld, with moody, anxious synthpop replacing the violent sonic onslaught of their last record. After recording WIXIW in Los Angeles, the group relocated to Brooklyn to shake things up creatively, as they told DAZED:

DAZED: As a group you move around a fair bit – Brooklyn, Berlin – would you say you draw a lot from location for your art/music?
Liars: It depends entirely on the type of project we undertake. In some instances our goal is to engage and react to our environment and on other projects we look to alienate and isolate ourselves from what’s going on around us.

DAZED: Why the name ‘Liars’? Would you say that being an artist is to be honest or dishonest?
Liars: I think it’s important for an artist to be honest with themselves in terms of what they are interested in and what types of ideas they wish to pursue, i.e. good artists follow their instincts. But in terms of the work created I see no reason to impose any kind of practical moral guidelines or sense of right or wrong that could potentially inhibit the development of the work. Personally, I think pure honesty lacks imagination.

DAZED: You seem to embrace confusion and ambiguity in the messages and themes of your music – why is that? How does that affect your approach to making music? What are you seeking to achieve through music if not clarity?
Liars: I think clarity is one dimensional and boring. I’m much more interested in the innumerable possibilities of misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Today’s information age is fraught with the overbearing knowledge of detail – so our approach is less about delivering finite answers and more about developing interesting questions.

“No. 1 Against The Rush,” the first single from WIXIW, is out on Mute Records today. The album, with artwork designed by John Weise, will be available on CD, deluxe vinyl (with CD) and limited edition vinyl with silk screened embossed covers hand dipped in black wax by the band on June 4 in the UK and June 5 in the US. You can stream the entire album at DAZED Digital.

The video fro “No. 1 Against The Rush,” directed by Todd Cole in Los Angeles.
 

 
The new Liars album, Sisterworld is getting serious consideration as my second favorite album (after MGMT’s Congratulations) of the year so far. Sisterworld’s dark musical textures call to mind Radiohead, Philip Glass, Faust and Megadeath simultaneously. It’s one of the most sonically “colorful” albums since Their Satanic Majesties Request, with a palette ranging from house-shaking electronic Krautrock drones to calm, syncopated oboe and bassoon ostinato, often in the same song. It’s an album that must be listened too fucking loud or else you’ll only understand half of its charms. This album wants to brutalize you. It wants to kick you in the head and leave you bleeding and puking in the gutter. But in a good way! Highly recommended.

The brilliantly packed version I have (w/ slipcover and hardback sleeve) also came with an alternate version of Sisterworld with remixed versions by Carter Tutti, Melvins,Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio, Alan Vega, Thom Yorke and Boyd Rice.
 

 
Thank you Iain Forsyth!