Pryor Stroud: Dovetailing an industrial-funk backbeat with darkly psychotropic synth-spasms, “Roger Waters” sounds like a paranoiac fit that infiltrates your nerves and activates your fight-or-flight impulse, despite your rational faculties screaming otherwise. Through twitching electro-blips and processed vocal chanting, it manages to actualize the full spectrum of psychosomatic phenomena associated with dread: bugged-out pupils, stiffening muscles, and the slow yet certain dissolution of your determination that everything will end up okay. [6/10]
Emmanuel Elone: Liima’s new song leaves me with a lot of questions, but not any answers. Why is this song titled after a Pink Floyd member? Why do Liima’s vocals on this track sound exactly like they were lifted from Bon Iver’s “Blood Bank”? And why is this instrumental so dull, even though there are some strange effects and dirty synths throughout? The only explanation that I can think of is that the song’s title and Liima’s vocals are simply ways to turn a lackluster experimental electronic instrumental into a half-decent tune that will attract both Bon Iver and Pink Floyd fans alike. Maybe that works for some, but it doesn’t work for me. [4/10]
Chad Miler: The vocal effect really compliments the harmonies being employed. The jittery music starting off was good enough on its own that I wasn’t even expecting vocals, but they both fit together really well, and the production is really effective at giving the piece life. [8/10]
Jordan Blum: I wonder if the video is supposed to evoke films like 28 Days Later. Anyway, I don’t get the connection to the Pink Floyd vocalist/bassist, and the music, if it can even be called that, is obnoxiously repetitive and piercing. The vocals don’t add much, either. It seems like a lot of effort for little payoff. [3/10]
Chris Ingalls: Am I the only person who thought this was a new song by Roger Waters called “Liima?” I am? Anyway, the weird keyboards are interesting, and the exotic beat gives the song a unique profile, but I almost wish it stayed an instrumental track. The vocals don’t really add anything worthwhile, resulting in a song that I wish had a karaoke version. [6/10]
Liima’s debut album ii released on 18 March 2016 on 4AD.
SCORE: 5.40