Liars, They were Wrong So We Drowned (side A)

Liars don't hint at where their influences are much at all. Occasionally, they sound a bit like 90s Touch n Go or old Dischord bands, but it's hard to tell if that's intentional, and the results resemble none of this at all. Their fractured, demented 2003 album They Were Wrong So We Drowned is a structural mess with strange percussion loops and lots of primitive sounds. It's a genuinely experimental record that rarely references other experimental records. Sometimes it works, sometimes it seems a bit lost, but it's still hard to believe that this was a commercially viable album at the time. The needlepoint design on the cover is remarkable, and even the 80s hardcore bands that thanked every band they'd ever met didn't put the list on the center sticker of the vinyl (as Liars did here)!