Liars - The Apple Drop

The Apple Drop follows 2017’s TFCF and 2018’s Titles with the Word Fountain – both distinctly solo affairs – but for Liars’ 10th album, Angus chose to expand and embrace collaboration. “My goal was to create beyond my abilities – something bigger than myself.”

The new album finds him working with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew. “For the first time I embraced collaboration from an early stage, allowing the work of others to influence the work of my own.”

For Angus, The Apple Drop comes from a personal place of realignment and reconfiguration. “Throughout Liars’ history I have consistently tried to develop new methods of creating music,” Angus says. “On each project I’ve essentially abandoned previous methods and attempted to instead learn different ways of writing and producing songs. Where once I perceived this journey as a straight line, I’m increasingly realising my trajectory is more akin to a spiral. As new ideas are generated, older ones take on new meaning and evolve further.”

There are not many bands that could make looking to the past feel futuristic but here Liars have managed to create an entirely new world – sonically, thematically and lyrically – by doing just that.

The Apple Drop will be released on Mute on 6 August 2021.