Noise rockers The Liars transplanted to Berlin to record their wonderfully complicated 2004 concept album Drum’s Not Dead, a move that no doubt accounts the gothic sentiment and krautrock flourishes that sets the piece apart from their earlier work. Starting with a set of songs conceived for an album that had since been abandoned, the band masterfully redrafted the work under a cryptic theme of moral duality, wistfully represented by two characters “Drum” and “Mr. Heart Attack”, allowing one to imagine an alternative universe where Dostoevsky wrote the Mr. Men series of children’s books.

On the curiously titled “It Fit When I Was a Kid”, calamitous drums accompany a falsetto narration of someone stalking, killing, and eventually burying someone once close to them. There are two kinds of mixtapes you can make for a woman, depending on the flavor of your desperation- one kind might feature acts like Marvin Gaye and Phoenix, perhaps with something touching written within the liner notes, this song is for the other kind.

Liars – It Fit When I Was a Kid 4:04 mins/ 320 kbps/ 18.9 MB