Quantcast
Music
cover art

Liars

The Other Side of Mount Heart Attack [CD-single]

(Mute)

So you’re a fan of Liars; you’ve been digging their album Drum’s Not Dead for months; you know how beautiful and naïve the final track is, with its nursery hush, twinkling melody and cracked vocals; you figure this is how Cobain might have sounded if he’d mixed a little MDMA with his H. So, you’re probably not going to buy this new CD single just because it’s got a radio edit. You know what might do it? Maybe a brand new number, “Do As the Birds, Eat the Remains”, with jagged guitars, glitchy drums and fascistic vocal commands. Or maybe a trancey, percussion-heavy remix of “Drum and the Uncomfortable Can”. Probably, though, it’s going to be the four bonus videos, directed by the band. How else are you going to get to see Aaron feasting on a corpse by the sea?

Rating:

Tagged as: liars
Related Articles
By PopMatters Staff
19 Jan 2011
Slipped Discs continues with the return of a '60s pop heartthrob, the best underappreciated hip-hip album of the year, the resurrection of a legendary '80s band, some great beats from M.I.A. and many more. All records that missed our top 70 list last year.
7 Jul 2010
"The Overachievers", the second single from Liars' Sisterworld, may be the most illusive song on the album.
28 Apr 2010
Regardless of how spectacular a live set a band puts forth, sometimes the audience is all it takes to make or break a show.
9 Mar 2010
Sisterworld is a paranoid, violent reaction to the social and artistic landscapes of Los Angeles. The album provides a forceful perspective on the nightmarish effects of the dream factory.
Comments
Now on PopMatters
10 Alternative Cinematic Valentines (Short Ends and Leader) [Tue, 9:00 am]
20 Questions: Fionn Regan (Features) [Tue, 1:00 am]
Shearwater: Animal Joy (Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
Dr. Dog: Be the Void (Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
Bombadil: All That The Rain Promises (Capsule Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
Rosie Thomas: With Love (Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
The Internet: Purple Naked Ladies (Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
sami.the.great: sami.the.great (Capsule Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
Guelewar: Halleli N'dakarou (Capsule Reviews) [Tue, 1:00 am]
  1. 'Nebraska': Bruce Springsteen's 'Heart of Darkness' (Columns)
  2. The 10 Greatest Shakespeare Film Adaptations of All Time (Short Ends and Leader)
  3. Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast (Features)
  4. The 10 Greatest Movie Spies Ever (Short Ends and Leader)
  5. Bored This Way: The 54th Annual Grammy Awards (Features)
  6. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 2: From the Go! Team to the Phoenix Foundation (Features)
  7. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon (Features)
  8. Lana Del Rey: Born to Die (Reviews)
  9. The Top 15 Madonna Singles of All Time (Sound Affects)
  10. Google and the Production of Curiosity (Marginal Utility)
  11. Carole E. Barrowman’s Authorial Journey to Hollow Earth (Features)
  12. Van Halen: A Different Kind of Truth (Reviews)
  13. “Don’t Let Me Fall”: Hip-Hop in the Age of Austerity (Features)
  14. Tower Songs: Townes Van Zandt (Columns)
  15. Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV (Reviews)
  16. Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom (Reviews)
  17. The Gay Ole Countryside (Columns)
  18. Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks (Reviews)
  19. Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro: A Rock Star’s Midlife Crisis or Valid Literature? (Features)
  20. Rating the Performances at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards (Mixed Media)
  21. Your Anti-Valentine's Day Playlist. (Mixed Media)
  22. Counterbalance No. 67: John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' (Sound Affects)
  23. A Look to the Past, An Insight Into the Present: The Use of Gender in 'Mad Men' (Features)
  24. The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos (Sound Affects)
  25. A Tale of How Great Journalism Became Revisionist History: Grambling State U Football (Columns)
  26. Chairlift: Something (Reviews)
  27. Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral (Reviews)
  28. Mitt Romney Can Reside at Today's Proverbial 'Downton Abbey'... Newt Gingrich Cannot (Features)
  29. After Cease to Exist: The Far-from-Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Features)
  30. Die Antwoord: Ten$ion (Reviews)
PM Picks
Music Archive
Announcements

© 1999-2012 PopMatters.com. All rights reserved.
PopMatters.com™ and PopMatters™ are trademarks
of PopMatters Media, Inc.

PopMatters is wholly independently owned and operated.
PopMatters is a member of BUZZMEDIA Music, MOG and Guardian Select.