Artist
Algiers
Genre:
Alternative Rock
Indie Rock
Total Time:
44:35
Record Label:
Matador Records
Format:
CD, MP3, Vinyl
Release Date
June 2, 2015
Algiers
Genre:
Alternative Rock
Indie Rock
Total Time:
44:35
Record Label:
Matador Records
Format:
CD, MP3, Vinyl
Release Date
June 2, 2015
Order links, audio samples and track list after the jump.
Product Description: The debut LP by Algiers is haunted by promises of the past: the rapturous call and response of millenarian gospel, the bellowing urgency of 60s protest soul, the scene-searching intensity of DC hardcore and the smeared viscosity of post-punk and no wave. After all, as Marx once said: “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” But rather than revel in a state of nostalgia, the band wields these burdened visions to charge headlong into the future. Over the album’s eleven tracks, these three émigrés of the American Deep South lay waste to appropriators, oppressors, revivalists and the cultural shock troops of capitalism. Vocalist Franklin James Fisher’s every shriek and incantation will take you from the sweaty fervor of Dennis Edwards-era Temptations through the righteous rebellion of Nina Simone to the solitary midnight howls of PJ Harvey. Shards of Lee Tesche’s guitar, along with Ryan Mahan’s bass pulses and synthesizer slashes, pierce through the processional, transforming neo-modernist hymns with explosions of foreboding and dread that evoke the vanguard of pop experimentation from Suicide to Roland S. Howard. In an era when political subjectivity and human connectivity have been smashed to pieces by the demands of finance capital, Algiers has taken its stance: to maintain fidelity to these subversive spirits and trudge toward the light. While they may never arrive at their destination – consigned to a life of wandering – they conjure the dead sound to life in frightening new directions.
1. Remains
2. Claudette
3. And When You Fall
4. Blood
5. Old Girl
6. Irony. Utility. Pretext.
7. But She Was Not Flying
8. Black Eunuch
9. Games
10. In Parallax
11. untitled
OTHER ALBUM RELEASES:
- OH MAN, COVER THE GROUND (Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles)
- CONSUMER COMPLAINTS (Shopping)
- LOS HIJOS DE LA MONTANA (Los Hijos de la Montaña)
- OTROS MUNDOS, OTRAS ESTRELLAS 1979-1982 (Aviador Dro)
- SYLVA (Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest)
- THE UNLAWFUL TRADE OF GRECO-ROMAN ART (So Stressed)
- THE CLEARING (Rachel Grimes)
- BACK 2 LOVE (Maysa)
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