The Liar Script - Lesser Men
Who can argue that there is no beauty in the underground, in things forgotten, obstructed, covered up by the new that advances inexorably?
In the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, The Liar Script formed, so devoted to European art forms, especially British ones, and began to play, to compose new songs with the healthy pleasure of staying in touch with those sounds and modes of expression. They did not deny themselves their most coveted task: to find their own style, something recognisable, aware of the difficulty given by the obvious amount of references that run through their songs. But they have succeeded, this is evident in the EP that Old Scribe has decided to reissue, seven years after its release.
The three sombre jewels are an exposition of two musical genres that are related, but have been struggling to get along lately: jealousies are inherent in the human soul. In doing so, immense possibilities for development are lost. The San Francisco band does not fail, however, and puts forth a sublime crossbreed of Post-Punk and Darkwave, with the opening track All My Frustration being a sombre dance, the intersection of tensions and lacerations rent in the scratchy bass and syncopated drumming.
With Lesser Men we enter the slow abyss of defeat, between murky guitars and a bass that sounds like a crocodile waiting to maul a gazelle. The vocals are like a weeping willow on a winter's day, and the will to live, now gone to the wastebasket of rejected things, crouches in this skin-tearing darkwave expression.
The last episode is titled The Silent Room and the echoes of the eighties advance, confusing, tossing us on the bed with the pleasure of a slow, perfect, enchanted, necessary anguish.
A work that confirms that there is delicious nectar in the bottom of bottles: take three sips, one for each track, and enjoy this little unknown miracle...
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
24th February 2023
https://theliarscript.bandcamp.com/album/lesser-men
