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Algiers – Algiers (LP Vinyl)

$ 26.95
$ 26.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Atlanta's Algiers arrived in 2015 carrying the full weight of the Black radical tradition, connecting the dots between Sam Cooke's martyrdom, the fire-and-brimstone of Southern gospel, and the confrontational noise of groups like Suicide and Big Black. Franklin James Fisher's voice is the throughline, a instrument equally at home in a Pentecostal church and a sweat-soaked basement show.

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.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Remains
2. Claudette
3. And When You Fall
4. Blood
5. Old Girl

Side B

1. Irony. Utility. Pretext.
2. But She Was Not Flying
3. Black Eunuch
4. Games
5. In Parallax

UPC: 744861106715
Label: Matador Records
Release Date: 6.2.15
Format: LP Vinyl