Photo by Clemens Habicht 

“Sometimes I think the strangest thing isn’t that the world is absurd, but how quickly we get used to it. You can find yourself living inside something completely ridiculous and, after a while, it just becomes Tuesday. Then you start to wonder if you’re seeing things clearly at all,” precludes Angus Andrew about “Beat Creep Some Eyes”, the latest preview off Liars forthcoming album, A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans. “You know what you’re looking at, but you’re no longer sure you’re seeing it correctly. I think the music lives somewhere in that space.”

To be fair, his band’s music has always existed somewhere beyond the status quo, which in turns makes it the perfect conduit for the absurdity of these new “norms” we find ourselves surrounded by. Paired with its Clemens Habicht-created visuals, alien synths orbing their path through some of this scenery as percussion shutters into the foreground, Andrew surveys the area like a planetary probe sent to some extraterrestrial land, except in this case, it’s just Kalamazoo. “I know that some of us raised our knives / All of us are color blind / All of us our worlds behind.” And yet, it’s just the one we live in now…

Directed by: Clemens Habicht

Liars’ A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans will be released March 5th on Mute Records.