Every Instinct Says No

Liars have never made it easy. No. 1 Against the Rush arrives from a band that has treated reinvention as a moral obligation since the beginning—noise, post-punk, tribal percussion, electronic minimalism, none of it held onto long enough to calcify into an identity. Angus Andrew has a way of writing around the center of a feeling rather than at it, and this track holds to that method: unsettled, circling, confident in its own discomfort. The title sounds like a manifesto. The music sounds like someone actually honoring one.