Liars Return With First Album and Song in Five Years

Liars’ Angus Andrew has announced his first album in five years, A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans. Inspired by a move to Kalamazoo, Michigan and titled after an actual law on the state’s books, the record is out March 5, 2027 via Mute.

Below, watch the music video for lead single “Ice Pick, Kalamazoo,” which Andrew shot on 3D camera at the city’s No Kings rally. After a move to Kalamazoo with his wife and daughter, Andrew experienced a toxic air crisis originating from a local packaging factory.

He’s got a run of UK and European shows lined up for October, including a front-to-back performance of 2006’s Drum’s Not Dead at Poland’s Unsound Festival to mark that record’s 20th anniversary.

Read about Drum’s Not Dead at No. 69 in The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s. A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans: 01 Happy or Not 02 Ice Pick, Kalamazoo 03 Laced Plume 04 Urgent as Always 05 Deep Deeper 06 Disaster Tropes 07 Beat Creep Some Eyes 08 Real Time Trespasser 09 Shame.

10 Retention Arc 11 Out of Order Liars: 10-02 Bucharest, Romania - Control Club 10-03 Nantes, France - Le Lieu Unique 10-05 Milan, Italy - Arci Bellezza 10-09 Krakow, Poland - Unsound 10-10 Belgrade, Serbia - Changeover Festival 10-12 Prague, Czech Republic - Punctum 10-13 Berlin, Germany - Neue Zunkuft 10-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 10-17 Kortrijk, Netherlands - Atelier Nooitgedacht 10-18 Liege, Belgium - Kultura 10-20 London, England - Moth Club 10-22 Paris, France - Boule Noire 10-24 Copenhagen, Denmark - Ideal Bar.

Photo by Clemens HabichtCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyLiars’ Angus Andrew has announced his first album in five years, A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans.

Inspired by a move to Kalamazoo, Michigan and titled after an actual law on the state’s books, the record is out March 5, 2027 via Mute. Below, watch the music video for lead single “Ice Pick, Kalamazoo,” which Andrew shot on 3D camera at the city’s No Kings rally.

After a move to Kalamazoo with his wife and daughter, Andrew experienced a toxic air crisis originating from a local packaging factory. “It wasn’t just the environment that was polluted,” Andrew said in press materials, “it was also my mind.” Of A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans, he explained, “It’s got more to do with the perception of things than modern pollution—how these things that can be a constant in your life become sort of ingrained and invisible.”.