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Algiers

Algiers
CD  |  Rock  |  05 Jun 2015
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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 fervour 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.

Title: Algiers

Format: CD

Release Date: 05 Jun 2015

Artist: Algiers

Sku: 2297363

Catalogue No: OLE10672

Category: Rock

Disc Count: 1

Transfer Format: Compact Disc

Video Format: Alternative

Primary Audio: OLE10672

Language: 0744861106722

Subtitles: Warner Music

DISC 1

Remains

Claudette

And When You Fall

Blood

Old Girl

Irony. Utility. Pretext

But She Was Not Flying

Black Eunuch

Games

In Parallax


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