Liars Vinyl Records
Helmed by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Angus Andrew, the restlessly experimental act Liars never make the same album twice. During the 2000s and 2010s, they evolved from the arty dance-punks of 2001's They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top into a project that transcended genres with every transformation. As they moved from place to place and sound to sound, they swung between vulnerability and aggression on each album -- and sometimes within the course of a single song. Their time in Berlin spanned the insular percussion experiments of 2006's Drum's Not Dead to the postmodern biker rock of 2007's Liars; while in Los Angeles, they celebrated the city's misfits on 2010's alternately claustrophobic and stark Sisterworld and explored emotional confusion with delicate electronics and dream pop on 2012's WIXIW.