There is still hardly a better band than Algiers if you want to hear and feel what it means not only to want to improve the world – but also to suffer really badly from it. Everything about this Atlanta band, a hundred-year-old blues troupe at heart, feels like emotional rock-carrying, all in a sincere attempt to offer a little integrity to the dishonesty and bullshit in the world.
Of course, this sounds like a concept that should throw off powerfully cerebral, knotted music, but with their fourth album SHOOK, Algiers once again prove the opposite. Algiers seek agony in the relentlessness of industrial and the repetition loops of technoid sound elements, and salvation in the unleashed physicality of rock and gospel.
It’s not entirely new anymore, still surprising here and there, because the band has brought a whole squad of supporters on board – from legends like the rapper Big Rube and Zack de la Rocha to the wonderful Nadah El Shazly, the electronica with acoustic Arabic mixes instrumental sounds. In addition, wave and post-punk elements, reminiscent of the very hot times of the Cold War, are present like never before – and fit in terrifyingly well with this feverish reflection of the present.
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