Album Review: Water Liars - Water Liars

Mississippi's Water Liars have followed up last year's debut, Wyoming, with this self-titled album, and it's even more gut-wrenching than ever. With the ghost of Jason Molina permeating every nuance, the 11 tracks on Water Liars beguile and bewitch, the album a poignant grower that tightropes between fuzzed-out Americana (Cannibal, Ray Charles Dream) and haunting country folk (War Paint, Pulp). The harmonies are great, but it comes down to Justin Kinkel-Schuster's melancholic warble and those lyrics: “I was afloat on a dirty brown river of heroin shivers/Waiting on someone to send me a boat”.