A few weeks ago New York trio Liars launched a website for their new album Sisterworld, due early 2010. In typically enigmatic form the site initially had three looped video clips of still landscapes overlayed with ambient sounds. This has now grown to include the band roaming the desolate beach environment but remains as cryptic as ever. Check it here.
The band have spent much of the year in LA recording the LP. They say of it: “we’re interested in the alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA. Environments where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society.” Sounds a lot like an early Thomas Pynchon novel to me, which can be no bad thing…
In addition to all of this Drowned in Sound posted a video correspondence they received from the band yesterday. It shows the large vacant house in LA where Liars worked on the record and tells how they spent much of the time trying to create unique noises with co-producer Tom Biller. Although in traditional Liars fashion the video keeps everything more than a little cryptic.
Whether any of the music in the clip will feature on the record is unknown but it’s definitely an interesting glimpse into the band’s recording process. Despite this it seems a pretty sure bet that Sisterworld will be full of the sonic experimentation and offbeat discord that we’ve come to expect from the band.
See the clip here.
