Northern Liberties are like a mini goth-punk cottage industry, spanning comps and 7-inches, live EPs and a DVD limited to 23 copies. Their third album Ghost Mind Electricity is a thudding, low-end-heavy journey through sorcery, unborn children, cremation and dead deer made all the more unsettling by the trio’s guitar-less setup and drummer/singer Justin Duerr’s half-detached, half-crazed missives, akin to those of Wilderness’ James Johnson. If there are metal tinges to “Silver Fire,” “Changing” is quiet and even pretty. This may be their best showing yet, but the way to experience Northern Liberties is live, where the crunching and munching of bone is right in your face.
(Doug Wallen) – Philadelphia Weekly