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After releasing the acclaimed Trench and Stuck a Monument, the Liars new release has been panned by Rolling Stone and the rest of the music press as the worst album of the year. Philip Sherburne of Slate tells you why:

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Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell

Why They Were Wrong So We Drowned is the most-hated album of the year.

By Philip Sherburne

Posted Friday, April 16, 2004, at 11:29 AM PT

When New York's Liars released their second album, They Were Wrong So We Drowned, the other month, Rolling Stone gave it one star out of five. Spin graded it an "F" and called it "unlistenable," and Billboard panned it as "abrasive," "self-indulgent," and "a gigantic step backward." What made the rejection particularly unusual is that these magazines had loved Liars' first album, and the follow-up had itself met with praise elsewhere, including Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times. But the story of Liars' divided reception isn't really about whether the album is any good; it's an object lesson in the risks a band faces in straying from formula at this moment in time—and in the limits of the current critical taste for music with a retro bent. The fact is that They Were Wrong So We Drowned is a spellbinding album, if not one that is easy to listen to.

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:read this: http://slate.msn.com/id/2098917/

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