They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Studio album by
Liars
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004
RecordedMay 2003
Genre
Length40:42
LabelMute Records
ProducerDavid Sitek, Liars
Liars chronology
Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like
(2002) 		They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
(2004) 		Drum's Not Dead
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic64/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Alternative Press3/5[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[5]
Mojo[6]
NME6/10[7]
Pitchfork6.3/10[8]
Q[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
SpinF[11]
Uncut[12]

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is the second album by noise rock band Liars, released in 2004.

The album is considered a massive departure from the post-punk-inspired style of their debut They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, exploring a more freeform, tribal sound. The album takes the form of a very loose concept album concerning witchcraft upon The Brocken (a mountain) during Walpurgis Night, and tales of witch trials in the area around the Harz Mountains in Germany. The recording coincided with the band's relocation from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the woods of rural New Jersey, which also inspired the initial direction of the album.

The focus upon the Brocken legends came when one of the band members mistakenly entered "Brocken Witch" into a search engine while researching the first song's title (called "Broken Witch" at the time).

A screenshot of the music video for "We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own" resulted on the band's eponymous creepypasta.

The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[13]

Track listing

  1. "Broken Witch" – 6:10
  2. "Steam Rose from the Lifeless Cloak" – 2:49
  3. "There's Always Room on the Broom" – 3:05
  4. "If You're a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses?" – 2:11
  5. "We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own" – 5:28
  6. "They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids" – 2:38
  7. "Read the Book That Wrote Itself" – 3:09
  8. "Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway" – 4:51
  9. "They Took 14 for the Rest of Our Lives" – 4:09
  10. "Flow My Tears, the Spider Said" – 6:12

References

  1. ^ Pitchfork Staff (October 2, 2009). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 28, 2023. They hurled themselves against their limits via the concussive dance-punk and anguished drones of their first two albums.
  2. ^ "Reviews for They Were Wrong, So We Drowned by Liars". Metacritic. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Phares, Heather. "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned – Liars". AllMusic. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  4. ^ "Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned". Alternative Press (188): 110. March 2004.
  5. ^ Fury, Jeanne (February 27, 2004). "They Were Wrong So We Drowned". Entertainment Weekly. No. 753. p. 98. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  6. ^ "Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned". Mojo (124): 101. March 2004.
  7. ^ Pattison, Louis (February 26, 2004). "Liars : They Were Wrong So We Drowned". NME. Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  8. ^ Carr, Eric (February 23, 2004). "Liars: They Were Wrong So We Drowned". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  9. ^ "Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned". Q (212): 107. March 2004.
  10. ^ Hoard, Christian (March 4, 2004). "Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 30, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  11. ^ "Breakdown". Spin. 20 (30): 96. March 2004. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  12. ^ "Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned". Uncut (83): 101. April 2004.
  13. ^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (7 February 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.

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