Liars

Liars relocated to L.A. and took inspiration from the city's loners and outsiders for 2010's Sisterworld, which mixed high-concept atmospherics with blistering outbursts and featured contributions from Jon Brion collaborator Tom Biller. That year, Liars also joined Beck's Record Club project and covered INXS' 1987 album Kick. To record their next album, the band wrote material in a cabin north of L.A. and worked with Mute founder Daniel Miller in their private studio. The result was 2012's WIXIW (pronounced "wish you"), an introspective, relationship-focused set of songs draped in soft electronics that drew comparisons to their previous tourmates Radiohead. The band did another about-face on the brash, industrial-tinged Mess, which arrived in March 2014. After that album's release, Gross left the band due to health issues that made touring and performing difficult, and Hemphill departed Liars amicably at the beginning of 2017. Andrew, the project's sole remaining member, relocated to a remote part of his native Australia, where he wrote songs that incorporated field recordings, acoustic guitar, and lyrics inspired by Hemphill's departure and the death of his father. Those songs became TFCF (short for "Theme from Crying Fountain"), which arrived in August 2017. Following the remix EP VFCF (Variations from Crying Fountain) in early 2018, that July saw the release of Liars' score to director Jeremy Phillips' coming-of-age film 1/1, which Andrew and Hemphill recorded in 2014 shortly after creating Mess. That September, the TFCF outtakes collection Titles with the Word Fountain appeared. Early in 2020, Andrew remixed the track "Top Ticket" from the post-punk supergroup P.E.'s debut album Person, and contributed vocals to Xiu Xiu's 2021 album Oh No. Liars resurfaced that August with their tenth effort, The Apple Drop. Appearing 20 years after the project's debut, the album boasted collaborations with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew as well as a more expansive approach than the TFCF era. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

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