Articles By: Mary Locke 
Liars – WIXIW album review
It’s another new album, and another new sound from NYC-based Liars. June 4 saw the release of “WIXIW” (pronounced “wish you”) via Mute Records. This time around the band’s sixth album is a heavy and steady dose of ambient electronic sounds that finally match what one would expect from two ex-Los Angeles art students. “WIXIW” opens with the a rousing stretch of textured sound, with a similarly fascinated Angus Andrew ruminating, “I wonder, I wonder where you go.” His vocals [...]
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By the time the harmonica is done belting it out in “Sins”, the first track on “Resurrection Men” by The Purnells, you’re hooked. The introduction of the rolling guitar riffs gets the head bobbing and the leg stomping, and then Stu Blackburn puts down the harmonica and starts singing. A schism erupts on “Resurrection Men” in which Blackburn’s harmonica pulls songs into one rugged blues direction, while his vocals pull those same songs into contemporary indie territory. While not a [...]
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