Algiers Shook CD

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. This triggered an intense period of beatmaking, reconnecting as friends over hours immersed in episodes of Rhythm Roulette and Against the Clock and descending deep into alt-rap YouTube rabbit holes. A revisit of DJ Grand Wizard Theodore's 1970s punk-infused New York City rap masterpiece 'Subway Theme' served as a spiritual moodboard for the album's cross-pollination of urban and counter-culture styles. Across the seamlessly flowing set, including spoken vignettes and ambient instrumental segues, the band pay respect to a sprawling lineage of rap and punk iconoclasts from DJ Premier, DJ Screw and Dead Boys to Lukah, Griselda and D?at - chopping and screwing beats on a dusty SP-404 and a Sequential Circuits Tempest, building imagined sample libraries from scratch.

1. Shatter - featuring Big Rube Everybody 2. Irreversible Damage - featuring Zack De La Rocha 3. 73% 4. Cleanse Your Guilt Here 5. As It Resounds - featuring Big Rube 6. Bite Back - featuring billy woods ; Backxwash 7. Tragedy - featuring Mark Cisneros Out of Style 8. Comment #2 9. A Good Man 10. I Can't Stand It! - featuring Samuel T. Herring ; Jae Matthews 11. All You See Isà 12. Green Iris 13. Born - featuring LaToya Kent 14. Cold World - featuring Nadah El Shazly 15. Something Wrong 16. An Echophonic Soul - featuring DeForrest Brown Jr. ; Patrick Shiroishi 17. Momentary - featuring Lee Bains