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Very minimal. Very Terse. Very pretty. Very simple. Very profound. At times melancholic and thoroughly groovy. Perfectly modulated. At the same time Fire Witch sounds grand, great and vast. You couldn’t called them ugly just because some of their tones seem somber and because their notes seem to sound inwards. That’s typical of bands that base their songs on the low tones of a bass. In this case, it is actually two of ‘em. As per the ‘simple’ part, it may just be that. The best music usually is. It avoids being contrived by grounding the number of notes and by being economical, this way letting the sounds do the talking, reverberate and echo.
To use a point of reference, Fire Witch approach and surpass the karmic power of OM. In fact, the first two songs of Liars! absolutely wipe the floor with the material of God is Good. As an instrumental trio, this Melbourne outfit manage to achieve the unachievable; they make us forget that rock music is usually vocal-driven. By offering bended notes, accentuated moods via a telepathic and harmonic relationship between instruments and natural rhythms Fire Witch has crafted music that is almost beach-perfect. I ain’t kidding. There is that rare free flowing nature here. Especially in the first two cuts, which by the way carve deep cuts with one bass being just it and the other hovering like a fly that refuses to die.
Liars! compiles two EP’s, I Spit Lies and Critter/Kritta. Both were recorded live in 2005. The first EP is the gem here and is the one described above. The second is entirely improvisational and is more driving and rock n’ roll. The contrasts and variations are more marked and less subtle. The first song in particular lacks grooves and seems somewhat fractured by different ideas that are not that compatible. The subtleties are gone. The second cut too, is the musical equivalent of a drunk mumbling and rumbling who knows what. The foundations are there, but the end product isn’t all that set.
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