“Liars continue their foray into electronic music with a series of incredibly bold, heavy tech house fusions.”
“This globe-trotting trio have an uncommonly diverse dossier: over seven albums, Liars have ranged from dance-punk chants to prog gloom to primal-rock action. They've never made the same album twice – and they've never made a dull one. Here, they reach for a macabre death-disco vibe. The first half has dance beats, even evoking the B 52's in the vintage synth bop of "Mess on a Mission" – the first ”
“Mess is the first Liars album that could be given a “dance-” hyphenate since their debut; it’s physical, bodymoving music for people who don’t have much interest in proper dance music.”