Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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Liars

  • They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top [Mute, 2002] **
  • Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like [Mute, 2002] Dud
  • They Were Wrong, So We Drowned [Mute, 2004] Dud
  • Drum's Not Dead [Mute, 2005] Dud

Consumer Guide Reviews:

They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top [Mute, 2002]
not a bad trick--tension-and-release that never lets go ("Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That," "The Garden Was Crowded and Outside") **

Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like [Mute, 2002] Dud

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned [Mute, 2004] Dud

Drum's Not Dead [Mute, 2005] Dud