Artist:Liars
Song:Scissor
Album:Sisterworld: Deluxe Edition
Liars started out as a band but has become a solo project for Angus Andrew. He does bring guys in but I think they are disposable. Except for the strings, Andrew plays all the instruments on the 2010 album Sisterworld. Andrew is from Australia. But he was studying photography at Cal Arts in Los Angeles in 1999 when he met Aaron Hemphill at a local record store where he was working. They started recording together and moved to New York after Andrew graduated. After adding a rhythm section, Liars released the 2001 album They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top themselves. The music was dance punk with drum machines and synthesizers. It did well enough on the New York club scene to get Liars a record deal with the British label Mute. After two EPs, Andrew decided to ditch the drum machines. The rhythm section left and Andrew brought in former Cal Arts classmate Julian Gross for the 2003 EP Atheists, Reconsider and the 2004 album They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. Then they moved to Germany and recorded the 2006 album Drum's Not Dead. Andrew likes to experiment with each album so the sound is different. This was not always critically acclaimed. Scissor is from the 2009 album Sisterworld. The video won Best Music Video at the 2011 Vimeo Festival + Awards. The Deluxe Edition has a bonus CD of remixes by Thom Yorke, Davendra Banhart and others. It's available as a budget CD. Gross left in 2014 and Hemphill left in 2017. The new band is guitarist Cameron Deyell and drummer Lawrence Pike from the band Gold Mice. They do appear on Liars' 2021 album The Apple Drop. So maybe Andrew is compromising his approach as he needs them for tours. Here's the video for Scissor by Liars.
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