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Liars<\/a>\u2019 Angus Andrew has announced his first album in five years, A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans<\/em><\/a>. Inspired by a move to Kalamazoo, Michigan and titled after an actual law on the state\u2019s books, the record is out March 5, 2027 via Mute<\/a>. Below, watch the music video for lead single \u201cIce Pick, Kalamazoo<\/a>,\u201d which Andrew shot on 3D camera at the city\u2019s No Kings rally.<\/p>\n After move to Kalamazoo with his wife and daughter, Andrew experienced a toxic air crisis originating from a local packaging factory. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just the environment that was polluted,\u201d Andrew said in press materials, \u201cIt was also my mind.\u201d Of A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans<\/em>, he explained, \u201cIt\u2019s got more to do with the perception of things than modern pollution\u2014how these things that can be a constant in your life become sort of ingrained and invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the release of the last Liars LP, 2021\u2019s The Apple Drop<\/em><\/a>, Andrew started a label, No Gold<\/a>, and an experimental festival series called Essential Tremors<\/a>. He\u2019s got a run of UK and European shows lined up for October, including a front-to-back performance of 2006\u2019s Drum\u2019s Not Dead<\/em><\/a> at Poland\u2019s Unsound Festival to mark that record\u2019s 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n Read about Drum\u2019s Not Dead<\/em> at No. 69 in The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans<\/em>:<\/strong>
01 Happy or Not
02 Ice Pick, Kalamazoo
03 Laced Plume
04 Urgent as Always
05 Deep Deeper
06 Disaster Tropes
07 Beat Creep Some Eyes
08 Real Time Trespasser
09 Shame!
10 Retention Arc
11 Out of Order<\/p>\n