Liars and Prayers
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Translator Audio, Brooklyn, NY
| Liars and Prayers | ||||
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| Released | April 22, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | December 2007 and January 2008 | |||
| Studio | Mad Oak Studios, Allston, MA Translator Audio, Brooklyn, NY | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, Blues rock, Indie rock | |||
| Length | 57:10 | |||
| Label | Thrill Jockey Low Transit Industries (Australia) | |||
| Producer | Thalia Zedek Andrew Schneider | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork |  [2] |
| PopMatters | Positive[3] |
| All About Jazz | [4] |
| Cokemachineglow | Positive[5] |
| Spin | [6] |
| Exclaim! | Positive[7] |
| Metro | Positive[8] |
| The Washington Post | Positive[9] |
| The Phill(er) | Positive[10] |
Liars and Prayers is Thalia Zedek's fourth solo album, released four years after Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch of Madness.
Recorded between December 2007 and January 2008 at Mad Oak Studios, in Allston, MA, and Translator Audio, in Brooklyn, NY, and released on April 22, 2008, by Thrill Jockey) Records, Liars and Prayers is Thalia Zedek’s fourth solo album. The first one to be released under the name Thalia Zedek Band, Liars and Prayers was co-produced by the members of the band and record producer Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Unsane, Daughters). Further recording was undertaken by Jane Pipiki at WGBH Studios and the album was ultimately mastered by Roger Seibel. The Brooklyn Paper reported that, after the release of Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch of Madness and the touring of Europe and Australia that ensued, Zedek believed she and her band "had taken the viola, drums, guitar thing as fas as [they] could."[11] Upon her return to Boston, then, she invited bassist Winston Braman (Shepherdess) and pianist Mel Lederman (Victory at Sea) to join her as she prepared material for her following album.[12] Both Braman and Coughlin had played bass and drums, respectively, in Zedek's previous band Come’s final record Gently, Down the Stream, after the departure of the original rhythm section consisting of Sean O’Brien and Arthur Johnson. Meanwhile, Lederman had already contributed piano to several tracks in Zedek's first and third solo records, namely, Been Here and Gone and Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch of Madness.
“Body Memory" was written in remembrance of Lisa King,[13] a "pioneering punk spoken-work artist/activist [who] died in February 2006."[14]
In Australia, the album was released by Low Transit Industries.
Track listing
All songs by Thalia Zedek. All arrangements by Zedek, Winston Braman, Daniel Coughlin, David Michael Curry, and Mel Lederman.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Next Exit" | Thalia Zedek | 7:12 |
| 2. | "lower allston" | Thalia Zedek | 4:37 |
| 3. | "Do You Remember" | Thalia Zedek | 5:46 |
| 4. | "We Don't Go" | Thalia Zedek | 4:11 |
| 5. | "Body Memory" | Thalia Zedek | 6:43 |
| 6. | "Begin to Exhume" | Thalia Zedek | 4:30 |
| 7. | "Stars" | Thalia Zedek | 4:55 |
| 8. | "Wind" | Thalia Zedek | 4:49 |
| 9. | "circa the end" | Thalia Zedek | 5:03 |
| 10. | "Come Undone" | Thalia Zedek | 3:42 |
| 11. | "Green and Blue" | Thalia Zedek | 5:49 |
Personnel
- Thalia Zedek Band
- Thalia Zedek – guitars; vocals
- David Michael Curry – viola, trumpet, vocals
- Mel Lederman – piano
- Winston Braman – bass
- Daniel Coughlin – drums, percussion
- Additional personnel
- Dan Zedek – Cover design
- Rosa Zedek – Assistant art director
- Jacob Zedek – Assistant art director
- David Michael Curry – Front cover photo
- Heather Kapplow – Back cover photo
- Thalia Zedek Band – Production
- Andrew Schneider – Production, Engineering, Mixing
- Jane Pipiki – Recorded the grand piano on tracks 1, 3, 6, 9–10
- Roger Seibel – Mastering
