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Liars Makes the Digital Switch in a Cabin in the Woods

Where else?

With every record Liars produces, they strive for a paradigm shift within their own creative processes—one that always results in an epic, dark, intense, and ultimately quite brilliant long player. There doesn’t seem to be another band out there that creates quite as complete a world within the soundscape of their recordings. For their sixth studio album, WIXIW, out on Mute on June 4th, this world is as edged with menace as ever, but with the addition of electronics that switch from pinpoint glimmers to thunderous bass (and seemingly every other possible sample in between), the game has been changed deeply for the listener once more.

In creating WIXIW, Liars switched up everything possible in their writing and recording habits, ditching instruments in favor of computer programs, looking inwards for inspiration and holing themselves up in a cabin in the woods of North California to write this record as “one.”

The process seems to have left them supremely happy, chill dudes who are simultaneously a little terrified of their creation. I caught up with Aaron Hemphill to discuss mastering electronics, the cathartic benefits of total emotional disclosure, and gruelling wax-dipping sessions.

Read the rest over at the brand new, fancy-looking NOISEY.