My Favorite Records of 2004 - #15 - Liars They Were Wrong So We Drowned (Mute)
Today we start the feature where every day I will list my favorite 15 records of 2004, in order, one a day. (Tomorrow will be skipped because I'm travelling all day.) If all goes as planned, my #1 record will be announced on December 31st.
I picked Liars as #15 not because it is an album that I have especially enjoyed listening to (I have put it on occasionally, but rarely listened to it straight through). Actually, the reason I've picked it is because of how much I disliked listening to it when I first put it on. But it has grown on me, and the genius of it has always been readily apparent. Only Liars could throw off the yoke of hipster expectations like this and come out stronger for it, but I think they have made the only move that a vibrant, creative band in their position should make. Be difficult, shuck off the fashionistas, release a record about witches. It's what Interpol should have done.
On the same token, though, I saw Liars live earlier this year, and the show was fucking incredible, despite the fact that it was only a drummer, guitar and vox for most of the show. They played nothing from They Threw Us in a Trench... but still managed to get the crowd dancing. Difficult as the music may be, the songs showed their inherent quality that night, and I have put the album on for entertainment, rather than puzzlement, since.
And "There's Always Room on the Broom" is probably the Liars' finest song to date. So, ominously, Liars' They Were Wrong So We Drowned waits at #15.
I picked Liars as #15 not because it is an album that I have especially enjoyed listening to (I have put it on occasionally, but rarely listened to it straight through). Actually, the reason I've picked it is because of how much I disliked listening to it when I first put it on. But it has grown on me, and the genius of it has always been readily apparent. Only Liars could throw off the yoke of hipster expectations like this and come out stronger for it, but I think they have made the only move that a vibrant, creative band in their position should make. Be difficult, shuck off the fashionistas, release a record about witches. It's what Interpol should have done.
On the same token, though, I saw Liars live earlier this year, and the show was fucking incredible, despite the fact that it was only a drummer, guitar and vox for most of the show. They played nothing from They Threw Us in a Trench... but still managed to get the crowd dancing. Difficult as the music may be, the songs showed their inherent quality that night, and I have put the album on for entertainment, rather than puzzlement, since.
And "There's Always Room on the Broom" is probably the Liars' finest song to date. So, ominously, Liars' They Were Wrong So We Drowned waits at #15.
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