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ALGIERS
Algiers
Title
ALGIERS
Artist
UPC
744861106715
Label
Genres
Release Date
Jun 1, 2015
Format
LP
Packaging
LP Deluxe Box
Weight
0.602
Price
$64inc. GST
Ships From
Melbourne, AU
Delivery
This item is usually delivered in 10 days
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 emigres 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.
Vinyl release includes mp3 download card
Over the album's eleven tracks, these three emigres 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.
Vinyl release includes mp3 download card
Tracklisting
- Remains
- Remains
- Claudette
- Claudette
- And When You Fall
- And When You Fall
- Blood
- Blood
- Old Girl
- Old Girl
- Irony. Utility. Pretext
- Irony. Utility. Pretext
- But She Was Not Flying
- But She Was Not Flying
- Black Eunuch
- Black Eunuch
- Games
- Games
- In Parallax
- In Parallax
- 11
- 11


