Mixing elements from proud purveyors of emotive and cutting guitar laden music such as The Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Husker Du, Thrice, Saves The Day and Dashboard Confessional ensures this 2nd full length offering from Baltimore’s bruisers LIARS is crisp and while srirking more stylistic boundaries than Hungary in the process.
Frontman Ryan Shelkett’s versatile vocals are a neat feature of this intriguing outfit; whether he comes across as cynical, dark and sinister like on ‘ Dying As Fast As I can’, or takes on a more soft and soulful touch like that in the tingling acoustic based ‘Breathing’. He does them all with sincerity, emotion and passion. The pop punkers out there are advised to head straight to track three ‘Adventure’, incorporating vocals recalling Thrice's Dustin Kensrue and featuring fighting talk from the outset with lines like: “For the record this is cold war, this is throwing dirt in the eyes. An education in an argument is this feeling alive? For the record I’m ready to fight, I’m ready to die.”
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The eerie touch of ‘Ghosts Of Baltimore’ will haunt and move the listener, being yet another example of the diversity of Liars Academy. This track features well timed percussion provided by Evan Tanner, bearing out the fact this is a well-rounded, talented outfit. It is going to be hard to select standout songs for single release, as this is truly a well thought out and broad collection of tracks. Liars Academy just get better and better.
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