In the video for the stressful “Sekwar,” Angus Andrew, the man behind Liars, appears to be on an esoteric mushroom mission. Looking like a crazed backwoodsman turned astro-spelunker, he stalks the gloom solo in a Martian sewer, fruitlessly casting a searchlight. On record, the song is both the lead…

Dark and wailing are the two words that pop to my mind when I think about the band Liars. The band has earned that over its first seven albums, and even though the band has changed, everything else has stayed the same on release of No. 8, TFCF, or, Themes from Crying Fountain.…