Today, Algiers are making a deluxe edition of their new album, SHOOK, available digitally. The expanded album features six additional tracks – b-sides, alternate versions, and live cuts recorded with an expanded lineup at December’s one-off ‘SHOOK WORLD’ concert in NYC. Released in February, SHOOK was championed by critics. “Throughout the album, Algiers lashes out at injustice, exults in its sonic mastery and insists on the life forces of solidarity and physical impact,” wrote the New York...
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Algiers release their fourth album, SHOOK. It’s a record that’s deeply informed by collaboration and community, with almost every track including a guest or feature. 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. While community and collaboration has always been integral to Algiers’ ethos, SHOOK brings this to its fullest manifestation. The...
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On February 24th, Algiers will release their fourth album, SHOOK. It’s a record that’s deeply informed by collaboration and community, with almost every track including a guest or feature. You can now listen to ‘73%,’ one of the album’s most raw and explosive moments and also one of a handful of songs that highlights Algiers’ core lineup. ‘73%’ follows previous singles, ‘I Can’t Stand It,’ ‘Bite Back’ featuring billywoods and Backxwash, and ‘Irreversible Damage’ featuring Zack de la Rocha. Stereogum called ‘Bite Back,’ “An essential posse cut for...
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Algiers release new single “I Can’t Stand It!”, taken from their forthcoming new album ’SHOOK’, released February 24th. The song features Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands) and Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher). It samples fellow Atlanta artist Lee Moses’ 1971 song, “What You Don’t Want Me To Be”. “I Can’t Stand It!” was written and produced by frontman Franklin James Fisher, who says: “It’s a very personal song about a devastating...
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Algiers announce their new album SHOOK, out February 24th 2023. 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...
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