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The Liars set a tone of tension and chaos, usually set over a dance groove. Distorted vocals, check, scratchy, angular riffs, check, a few electronic noises and percussion, check. Not much in the way of melody, but there are some hooks. More of the hooks become apparent on "Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris",which makes good use of a Psycho-like sample and an unresolved bass line to set a cool sense of menace, though it seems more like an experiment than a complete song. "Nothing Is Ever Lost Or Can Be Lost My Science Friend" (too bad the best part of the album are the names) also makes good use of some computer effects, like a creepy whistle. "We Live NE Of Compton" is probably the most dry and straightforward, and set to disco. The closing "This Dust Makes That Mud"**** is the album's masterpiece, with a constant fat, resonant bass riff, distorted and heavily reverbed vocals, and some loops. Resembling "Bullet The Blue Sky" but creepier, it's more a soundtrack to a stroll though a nightmare than a song. Problem is, the song basically ends at 5 minutes, but continues for another 25 minutes of the same, which has some new noises until about minute 8, after which you've reached whatever that last groove in the record is - only the song keeps on going - how Beatlesque.
The Liars set a tone of tension and chaos, usually set over a dance groove. Distorted vocals, check, scratchy, angular riffs, check, a few electronic noises and percussion, check. Not much in the way of melody, but there are some hooks. More of the hooks become apparent on "Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris",which makes good use of a Psycho-like sample and an unresolved bass line to set a cool sense of menace, though it seems more like an experiment than a complete song. "Nothing Is Ever Lost Or Can Be Lost My Science Friend" (too bad the best part of the album are the names) also makes good use of some computer effects, like a creepy whistle. "We Live NE Of Compton" is probably the most dry and straightforward, and set to disco. The closing "This Dust Makes That Mud"**** is the album's masterpiece, with a constant fat, resonant bass riff, distorted and heavily reverbed vocals, and some loops. Resembling "Bullet The Blue Sky" but creepier, it's more a soundtrack to a stroll though a nightmare than a song. Problem is, the song basically ends at 5 minutes, but continues for another 25 minutes of the same, which has some new noises until about minute 8, after which you've reached whatever that last groove in the record is - only the song keeps on going - how Beatlesque.
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