Algiers
Track Listing: 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
Algiers mix the soul-powered activism of early '70s Motown with the proto-punk fury of the MC5, the synth primitivism of Suicide, and the Biblically charged drama of the Bad Seeds. On their Matador debut, they project the righteous indignation required of all great protest music.
The debut album by Algiers, who formed in Atlanta and currently reside in London and New York, exemplifies the difference between ‘influenced by’ and ‘sounds like’.
Discover Algiers by Algiers released in 2015. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
The three-columned front page of Algiers’ web site spotlights the gospel-industrial hybrid’s post-punk, jazz, and hip-hop influences, along with civil rights leaders, philosophers and artists whose words and actions inform the band’s protest ethos and reaction-provoking works of art.
AlgiersArtist: AlgiersGenre: RockLabel: MatadorLike all the best acts, Algiers put blood in the music, but that’s just one iron in the fire.