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Liars: Liars

Mike Barnes, The Guardian, 12 August 2007

LIARS VOCALIST AND GUITARIST Angus Andrew reckons that this is the first album on which he has felt like a proper songwriter and admits he would have laughed at such a prospect before. And, indeed, it is significantly different from the spartan combination of incantations and monomaniacal drum patterns that characterised 2006's Drum's Not Dead. Their current single, 'Plaster Casts of Everything', exemplifies this. Drummer Julian Gross's trademark rhythms give the song its momentum, but there's also a new-found sense of structure.

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