When Liars released their debut, They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top, in 2001, they were poised to be the leaders of the then-burgeoning post-punk revival. Owing more to bands like The Delta 5 or Gang Of Four than to any recent peers, Liars' initial sound was a welcome change to the homogenized rock that seemed to be coming from every speaker at the beginning of the decade. On through the challenging, but no less welcome They Were Wrong, So We Drowned and culminating in Sisterworld, Liars have always pushed themselves into new and sometimes alienating directions and I'm sure there was a time when they wondered whether their fans would follow. Sisterworld does indeed seem like a culmination, of sorts, of the elements that have made them so endlessly fascinating over the course of their four previous full-lengths. These songs inhabit a nervous, even schizophrenic head-space, and while acknowledging the stylistic flourishes that have come to mark their last few albums, the songs also use basic song structures to create depth and mood. "Scissor", the brooding opener and "Scarecrows On A Killer Slant", a definite album highlight, tread the cacophonous tendencies that have become Liars staples and turns them into haunting, damaged songs, revealing a more personal side to Liars that we've seen before, which really isn't saying much; they've never been known for their tender side. Sisterworld revels in its' capacity for evoking tension and foreboding, and these songs build to something that, even after you've listened to all 11 tracks, is still undefined and just a shadow on the horizon.
Tracklisting:
01. Scissor
02. No Barrier Fun
03. Here Comes All the People
04. Drip
05. Scarecrows On A Killer Slant (listen to the mp3 below)
06. I Can See An outside World
07. Proud Evolution
08. Drop Dead
09. The Overachievers
10. Goodnight Everything
11. Too Much, Too Much
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