Liars Set August Release For New Album The Apple Drop , Share First Single Sekwar Thursday, 06 May 2021
Liars are back with details of a new album. The Apple Drop will arrive on August 6 via Mute Records and feature the newly shared single, Sekwar, a ominous sounding electronic-rock fusion built on pulsating synths and descending guitars. It comes paired with a cinematic video directed by Clemens Habicht.
The record marks the first new music from the project of founding vocalist Angus Andrew since 2017 s TFCF and 2018 s Titles With The Word Fountain . It finds him working alongside jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew. He said:
Christian Eede
, May 5th, 2021 13:05
Angus Andrew has also shared a video for lead track Sekwar
Liars will release a new album this August.
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The Apple Drop, the album is preceded by lead track Sekwar , for which you can watch a video above. The record sees Angus Andrew working collaboratively once again, after 2017 s
TFCF and 2018 s
Titles With The Word Fountain, with jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew all brought into the fold. My goal was to create beyond my abilities – something bigger than myself, Andrew says of letting others into his creative process on
Liars will release new album The Apple Drop on August 6th.
The long-running project was reduced to Angus Andrew on 2017 s TFCF and 2018 s Titles With The Word Foundation , but is ready to expand once more.
10th album The Apple Drop finds the songwriter working with outside forces, linking with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew.
He comments: âFor the first time I embraced collaboration from an early stage, allowing the work of others to influence the work of my own.â
New album The Apple Drop is seemingly a work of renewal and realignment, with Angus explaining:
Rolling Stone Liars Preview New Album ‘The Apple Drop’ With Off-Kilter ‘Sekwar’
Angus Andrew plays a spelunker who goes increasingly insane in music video for new track
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The Apple Drop, set to arrive August 6th via Mute.
“Sekwar” boasts a mix of lurching drums, rich guitars, and pulsing synths that sometimes stumble around each other and sometimes link up in unison. “When the fog that grows insane,” sings Liars mastermind Angus Andrew at the end of the song, “That I can’t get out my mind/Can you tell me what I used to know?”
“Sekwar” arrives with a music video, directed by Clemens Habicht, and starring Andrew as a spelunker venturing into a mysterious cave. Andrew’s character appears to grow increasingly batty the deeper he goes, and the clip ends with him piecing together a small electronic device that fully warps the world.
From the NS archive: Swallowing it in silence 2 November 1984: Let the patients decide on the risk of drugs.
By Jad Adams
The people most ignorant about a prescription drug are the patients taking it, wrote Jad Adams in this article from 1984, which argued for a reconfiguring of the British pharmaceutical industry. According to a 1977 law, if pharmaceutical companies informed patients about a drug at all, they were obliged to provide a leaflet detailing information on all side effects. But the industry and doctors argued that juxtaposing major but rare side effects with minor, common ones resulted in a decrease in patient compliance. The (totally legal) alternative was for companies to give absolutely no information at all. Adams described a new method of identifying drug risks that involved doctors recording events which happened to a patient while they were taking the drug, whether they seemed related – a rash, for example – or not – perhaps a broken leg. “The obv