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Water Liars

Wed, August 5, Doors: 9:30 pm - Show: 10:00 pm - 21+ - $7  Artist Website
The Vaudeville Mews presents...
"My sisters were the heavens / My brothers were the depths / Now I'm rolling into battle with a smoke between my lips," Justin Kinkel-Schuster sings on "I Want Blood," and it's a presiding image on Water Liars. Joined by GR Robinson on bass, and fresh off the success of sophomore album Wyoming and the reissue of debut LP Phantom Limb – both released earlier this year – Kinkel-Schuster (vocals, guitar) and Andrew Bryant (drums, vocals) strut into this effort with their feathers out, driven by a need to create. Forget taking years to release a new album; Water Liars don't know how to stop working. A punk aesthetic – a desire not to overdo songs until they're shiny with emptiness – is the band's defining feature, and it's why their songs are filled with such raw sorrow. To call the songs here an improvement over what they've done before would be to sell the earlier work short: Wyoming, released in March, earned praise from The New York Times, Alternative Press, Penthouse, and All Music Guide, among others.
With:
Conrad Bascom & The Eternal Returners
The New Bodies

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