They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top

by Liars

They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 October 2001
  • Label: Gern Blandsten
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:39
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut from Liars is an abrasive, highly rhythmic collision of dance-punk and noise rock. The band combines aggressive, repetitive funk grooves with anxious, manic vocals to create a chaotic yet hypnotic sound central to the early 2000s New York underground.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, rhythmic, noisy, abrasive, dissonant, fractured, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Grown Men Don't Fall In The River, Just Like That (03:03)
  2. Mr Your On Fire Mr (02:27)
  3. Loose Nuts On The Veladrome (02:19)
  4. The Garden Was Crowded And Outside (02:44)
  5. Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris (04:04)
  6. Nothing Is Ever Lost Or Can Be Lost My Science Friend (03:03)
  7. We Live NE Of Compton (03:01)
  8. Why Midnight Walked But Didn't Ring Her Bell (00:51)
  9. This Dust Makes That Mud (30:07)

Credits

  • Liars - Member, producer [produced by]
  • Michael Sarsfield - lacquer cut by
  • Alan Douches - mastered by
  • Barbel Schmidt - photography by [photograph]
  • Steve Revitte - producer [produced by], recorded by, mixed by

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