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Rating: One of the best releases of 2004: the Liars, a New York trio led by Angus Andrew, leave behind what they had achieved in their first release and in the split with Oneida to amaze us, with a capital A.
Ten tracks with mile-long titles, all centered around the theme of witchcraft: dark music that unravels like a bad trip through the darkest recesses of the human soul, lyrics like mantras obsessively repeated, sometimes exploding in pure anguish (the opening "Broken Witch") and other times remaining in a hypnotic and sickly calm; sometimes post-industrial rhythms that throw you into a disturbing future, mechanical and repetitive, with no room for diversity, other times tribal, liberating and primal ("Hold Hands"); continuous and psychedelic flows of noise and atonality (the unsettling "Steam Rose"), and in the end, you no longer know where you are, surrounded by insane keyboards and chirps (the closing "Flow My Tears").
The only "easily" accessible tracks are the corrosive "There's Always Room On Your Broom," which subtly connects to the band's previous work and perhaps recalls the Butthole Surfers, and "They Don't Want Your Corn," which smells of El Guapo, especially on the electronic side; here and there subtle reminiscences of early Sonic Youth and Pop Group, especially for the form of sound magma created.
Unconventional, illogical, dirty, and sick music, songs (???) that few know how to create, and even fewer so well, in a period when the revival of Garage Rock, especially in NYC, rules the scene.
Not to hear, but to listen to carefully and multiple times: you might not like it, but it's impossible to remain indifferent.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Broken Witch (06:08)
I NO LONGER WANT TO BE A MAN.
I WANT TO BE A HORSE.
MEN HAVE SMALL THOUGHTS.
I NEED A TAIL.
GIVE ME A TAIL.
TELL ME A TALE
OF THE CHILDREN THAT STOOD IN THE WAY
OF THE ENDLESS WINTER
OF THE WHITE WITCH WHO'S LONGING TO CRIPPLE IMPALE
I, I AM THE BOY.
SHE, SHE IS THE GIRL.
HE HE IS THE BEAR.
WE WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF BLOOD
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
I, I am the girl.
She, she is the girl.
He, he is the bear.
We, we, we want to be
Him(I), we(I), we(I) want to be a horse.
I, I AM THE BOY
SHE, SHE IS THE GIRL.
HE, HE IS THE BEAR.
AND WE, WE WE ARE THE ARMY
YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF BLOOD
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
Wanna be a horse
I I I
Wanna be a horse
I I I
Wanna be a horse
I I I
I I I
I I I
I I I
I I I
I
I
I
I, I AM THE BOY.
SHE, SHE IS THE GIRL.
HE, HE, HE IS THE BEAR
WE, WE, WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
Blood blood blood blood
Blood
03 There's Always Room on the Broom (03:04)
Lay the cross
That's how we choose to wrap it up.
Time and grant approved,
Oh, what a move.
Took a sip -
The compass over rock and cliff.
Dead for years -
On devil's tears.
They disappear -
Fly away -
Spider web,
From my leg to my head.
Dragon's egg,
In the cubbord.
Saw the light,
In the quicksand.
Dark is cryin',
For the world.
Fly from peace.
(Oohh)
I said you're gonna get it in a second
On my way from my pony
All the girls so you win it.
You'll never stop the world,
And you make it with a cow,
And they wanna understand it so they kill it.
In summer wont we want to be in school with everyone?
So we huddle all together,
'Till we get more damage done,
(Oooh).
I say you're gonna get it in a second
On my way come and put it on the girls
And you win it
You never stop the word
Try to fake it with a cow
And they wanna undrestand it so they kill it.
In summer wont we want to be in school with everyone?
So now we're all together,
Till we get more damage done.
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