Liars have a reputation for changing their sound. Their latest release, the Radiohead-esque WIXIW, is their first electronic record in a repertoire ranging from hard hitting dance punk to gnarly experimental percussion (finely straddling the border between unlistenable and brilliant). Yet live, all these styles work wondrously together. Sporting sleek suit jackets, Liars take to a smoked out stage and start with a guitar squeal. Early crowd pleaser ‘Scarecrows on a Killer Slant’ is a demonic freak-out whose anger and urgency carry it far above the average art-rock song.  With menacing guitar sounds, urgent vocals and dense drumming, Liars ferociously push the crowd into hypnosis. They transition seamlessly from noise to minimalism, trading drum kit for drum machine, guitar for synth, only to enhance their mesmerising grip. New songs like ‘No.1 Against the Rush’ are radically stripped back from early material, but fit in perfectly with Liars’ aesthetic. It can’t all be perfect. The band decided to incorporate a visual element to the set: a video feed which sees them in some sort of Big Brother Diary Room situation – it’s simply distracting. But the music at hand is too great for this to do any real damage. Liars’ refusal to stagnate and vast music palette make them a truly remarkable act.

8/10