Christmas Comes Way Early: a New LIARS Album!
I hate to ride Pitchfork's jock, but this has got me more excited than usual about music, especially with K-punk's endless "death of" postings. Liars came out in the early naughties with one of the best NYC-scene "dancepunk" albums ever heard, then followed it up with something completely different (flogs and witches?) and now... Drum's Not Dead, which single-handedly ups the ante for music acts everywhere by including:
[A] DVD with three film versions of the album, Drum's Not Bread (directed by Julian Gross), The Helix Aspersa (directed by Angus Andrew) and By Your Side (by award-winning filmmaker Markus Wambsganss). Each film comprises of videos for each of the tracks on the album: that's 36 videos in total. From backstage travelogues to surreal animation and mini sci-fi epics, Liars document the process of recording, touring, then visually reinventing each track. It's an ambitious and groundbreaking expansion of the album format, throwing down the gauntlet for other creatively ambitious bands to follow suit.
This seems to me to be a natural progression for LPs now that the music itself can be had for about 5 minutes' work on Limewire (until, of course, all the videos are available online too).
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I've been thinking of just turning this into a straight-up music blog (or just off-loading all music thoughts onto a new music-only blog), fit for reviews, diatribes, recordings of my own, and news items like this. What say thee, loyal underfed peanut gallery?
posted by Paul S. at
10:32 AM
3 Comments:
Like your other stuff too much just to do music.
Liars are rad.
WHAT "other stuff"?
Descriptions of towns, the odd irreverent social observations.
You are a witty guy -in writing at least. While what I hear through the grapevine is you are quite the a-hole, at least in writing, you can be quite interesting.
(Okay, that last sentence had zero truth value - I'm just yanking your chain, in hopes that you will use your wit again (and probably on me), so that I chuckle. So sad, the life of we, the not funny. Willing to stoop to having own own rump kicked, out of sheer relief from the tediousness of an unfunny life...)
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