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Algiers - Shook
Algiers - Shook

Algiers - Shook

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Returning for their fourth full-length on Matador; featuring an impressive list of collaborators and guests.

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Algiers returns with Shook, their first new music since 2020’s There Is No Year, called “a heady concoction of post-punk, ‘60s soul and political insight.” (NME ****) Shook features contributions from Rage Against The Machine’s Zack De La Rocha, Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews, Big Rube, billy woods, Backxwash, and many more. September’s standalone release of Shook single “Bite Back” was greeted by The FADER with a glowing “Song You Need” review: “A sober state of the union rallying cry for the revolution.”

“The world got shook”

So Algiers formed a crew. The band—who have built one of the most exciting catalogs and cult followings of recent years, with 2020’s There Is No Year described as "electrifying and unpredictable" (The Observer) and "precise, thoughtful and powerful" (NME) —gathered a posse of like-minded artists to create their fourth album, SHOOK, via Matador. Stacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, SHOOK is a lightning rod for an elusive yet universal energy and feeling. A plurality of voices; a spiritual and geographical homecoming; a strategy of communion in a burning world; the story of an end of a relationship; an Atlanta front porch summer party. Ultimately, it's a 17-track set of the most mind-expanding and thrilling music that you are likely to hear anytime soon.

Algiers have always been unflinching, but SHOOK is at the same time notably joyous and celebratory. It was born when Fisher and Mahan found themselves back in their native Atlanta for several months, reeling from growing pressures and burnout as touring musicians. This triggered an intense period of beatmaking, reconnecting as friends over hours immersed in episodes of Rhythm Roulette and Against the Clock and descending deep into alt-rap YouTube rabbit holes. A revisit of DJ Grand Wizard Theodore’s 1970s punk-infused New York City rap masterpiece ‘Subway Theme’ served as a spiritual moodboard for the album’s cross-pollination of urban and counter-culture styles. Across the seamlessly flowing set, including spoken vignettes and ambient instrumental segues, the band pay respect to a sprawling lineage of rap and punk iconoclasts from DJ Premier, DJ Screw and Dead Boys to Lukah, Griselda and Dïat – chopping and screwing beats on a dusty SP-404 and a Sequential Circuits Tempest, building imagined sample libraries from scratch.

Tracklisting

Everybody Shatter feat. Big Rube
Irreversible Damage feat. Zack De La Rocha
73%
Cleanse Your Guilt Here
As It Resounds feat. Big Rube
Bite Back feat. billy woods & Backxwash
Out of Style Tragedy feat. Mark Cisneros
Comment #2
A Good Man
I Can't Stand It! feat. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews
All You See Is…
Green Iris
Born feat. LaToya Kent
Cold World feat. Nadah El Shazly
Something Wrong
An Echophonic Soul feat. DeForrest Brown Jr. & Patrick Shiroishi
Momentary feat. Lee Bains

Artist: Algiers
Label: Matador
Catalogue: OLE1784LPE
Barcode: 191401178402
Format: LP or CD
Release Date: 24th February 2023
                               

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