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- Date Released: May 1, 1992
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Touch And Go
The Lizard tighten their attack into a precise burst of venom on their third, strongest effort
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We Say...
For Jesus Lizard's third and strongest album, 1992's Liar, the band tightens up to a near-metal sludgegrind, a precise and acrid burst of venom that made the AmRep bands of the time seem sloppy — and made scene leaders Nirvana seem tame. Yow has dropped a good amount of his Lynchian perversion and creepo obsessions (well, save "Rope," a song about a dude found bound in the woods with a trowel up his ass) but has lost none of his animalistic aggro-ramble or booze-soaked onomatopoeia. In fact mostly he comes off like a spittle-spraying dirty old man, gurgling out "Get undressed" and a bunch of unintelligible fucknoise on "Whirl." Other times the entire band clears out and leaves him alone to flail and crawl. He's been renowned for having one of the most abrasive voices of the '90s, but his whimper on "Slave Ship" and proto-Patton jabberwocky on "Dancing Naked Ladies" show he may also have had one of the most dynamic. The rhythm section updates and refines the savage swing of Slip It In-era Black Flag while Duane Denison branches out his sonic palette to include the siren wail of "Boilermaker," the whiney screech of single "Puss" and the demented Morricone lurch of "Zacharia."
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They Say...
From the first few seconds, in which "Boilermaker" leaps out of the speakers like a crank-addled mugger armed with a tire iron, Liar captures the Jesus Lizard in gloriously manic and muscular form, and if it sounds a bit less grimy and psychotic than Goat, the album that preceded it, this is still the musical equivalent of a ranting lunatic you would never dream of sitting next to on the subway. While said lunatic would probably be best personified by vocalist David Yow, whose litany of gasps, bellows, and shrieks is freakishly eloquent even when you can't figure out what he's saying, the drill-press guitar of Duane Denison and the constant rhythmic pummel of David Sims and Mac McNeilly conjure up a remarkably convincing re-creation of the noises in his head, and the band's taut, rapid-fire precision and striking command of dynamics (no matter that the silences appeared in split-second bursts) generate a groove that manages to be sensuous and uncomfortable at the same time. And while the crashing force of cuts like "Gladiator" and "The Art of Self-Defense" is what folks commonly associate with the Jesus Lizard, the spaghetti Western nightmare of "Zachariah" shows they can slow down without losing any of their impact in the process. Liar isn't quite the wildest or weirdest album the Jesus Lizard ever made, but it may well be the strongest, and perhaps the best.
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Boilermaker |
2:15 |
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| 02. | |
Gladiator |
4:00 |
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| 03. | |
The Art of Self-Defense |
2:39 |
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| 04. | |
Slave Ship |
4:13 |
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| 05. | |
Puss |
3:19 |
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| 06. | |
Whirl |
4:19 |
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| 07. | |
Rope |
2:19 |
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| 08. | |
Perk |
2:30 |
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| 09. | |
Zachariah |
5:43 |
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| 10. | |
Dancing Naked Ladies |
2:56 |
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| 11. | |
Wheelchair Epidemic (Bonus Track - Single Version) |
2:12 |
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| 12. | |
Dancing Naked Ladies (Bonus Track - Single Version) |
3:02 |
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| 13. | |
Gladiator (Bonus Track - Idful Studios Sessions Demo) |
3:59 |
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| 14. | |
Boilermaker (Bonus Track - Idful Studios Sessions Demo) |
2:22 |
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14 Total Tracks, 45:48 Total Length
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Credits
- The Jesus Lizard - Main Performer // Duane Denison - Guitar // Mac McNeilly - Drums // David Wm. Sims - Bass // David Yow - Vocals // Malcolm Bucknell - Paintings // Malcolm Bucknell - Pai
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