Genre: Rock Year: 2004 Country: USA Official Site: Liars Academy Details: Tracks & Audio Label: Equal Vision Records
It's a simple mixture, really: Good harmonies, driving drums, a thrumming bass and a guitar or two. It's rock, yeah, but Liars Academy throws in enough chunk-a-chunk chords here and there, a little stop-and-go, some keyboard beeps and organ drops, to make the whole thing even more interesting.
Interviews mark the band as "emo" and the label, Liars Academy, calls them "underground."
Whatever.
"Underground" should denote music that's tough to listen to, not just the stuff that hasn't hit yet.
The driving guitar riff on "Microtron," the soaring harmonies on "Come on Danger" and the fun keyboards on "People Are Games" could appeal to the millions in love with Maroon 5.
Come on, people, it's even got the end-of-album anthem in "Washing Machine," which has an intro riff damn close to one of my favorite Catherine Wheel songs ever.
Heck, I'm singin' along, people, and I couldn't stand Better Than Ezra or any of those other poppy rock people from the 1990s.
Liars Academy rocks hard enough to lift the harmonies out of the cheese.
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