{"id":7028,"date":"2012-08-02T03:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:07:21","slug":"liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/liars\/","title":{"rendered":"LIARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7029\" title=\"LIARS-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LIARS-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LIARS-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LIARS-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>L<\/strong><strong>IARS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>WIXIW<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Mute]<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, the title of Liars\u2019 latest is pronounced \u201cwish you,\u201d and the band members say the fact that its unique spelling is a palindrome was somehow a source of comfort to them. Never mind\u2014that explanation is about as oblique as the music on this follow-up to 2010\u2019s <em>Sisterworld<\/em>, 11 songs steeped in synthesizer textures and atmospherics. Liars have previously played with keyboards and electronics, alternating on earlier albums between cranked-up guitars and gauzier arrangements, but <em>WIXIW<\/em> finds the trio at its most experimental. \u201cThe Exact Color of Doubt\u201d drifts by like wisps of cloud, while a stark bassline underpins dark, skittering bursts of electronics punctuating ethereal vocals. The buzzy synths and throbbing beat on \u201cBrats\u201d are club-ready, and low, churning synths lend an air of tribal menace to \u201cA Ring on Every Finger.\u201d It\u2019s vastly different from the post-punk sound the band mined early in its career, but a healthy sign that Liars has plenty of wishes left to make. \u2013ED<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIARS WIXIW [Mute] For what it\u2019s worth, the title of Liars\u2019 latest is pronounced \u201cwish you,\u201d and the band members say the fact that its unique spelling is a palindrome was somehow a source of comfort to them. Never mind\u2014that explanation is about as oblique as the music on this follow-up to 2010\u2019s Sisterworld, 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4300,4462,302,4464,4463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}