Liars WIXIW LP (Recycled Color Vinyl)

WIXIW is the next album to be released in the Liars' limited edition recycled color vinyl reissue series. Initially released in 2012, WIXIW was Liars' sixth full-length album as a band (Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross). It somehow provided a summation of Liars' work preceding the record, whilst also providing a complete break from anything that had been heard from the band. Recorded in L.A., the album was self-produced by the band, with additional production from Mute's Daniel Miller and mixing by Tom Biller. It illustrated an ambiguous, fragile in-between state for Liars, being considered as both their most accessible and most challenging album.

Perhaps WIXIW's biggest surprise is just how pretty it is, particularly on the luring opener 'The Exact Colour of Doubt,' where Angus Andrew's singing is nearly as lovely as the sea of strings and electronics engulfing him, and on the album's title track, where shoegazey drones mirror and deepen the song's confusing blur of emotions....[I]t's...fascinating to hear Liars wield beauty and delicacy just as formidably as they've used force and noise in the past.