Atlanta via London/NYC four-piece Algiers unveil an arresting re-imagination of fellow Atlantan’s Outkast’s classic 1998 track ‘Liberation’ today, with a live video filmed in the cavernous Conklin Metal Building their mutual hometown. Watch here:
There Is No Year is out now on Matador Records. Get the album, which features singles “We Can’t Be Found,” “Void” and “Dispossession,” here. Algiers recently appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to perform “Dispossession,” watch here.
The album was recorded over the past year by childhood friends and Atlanta natives Franklin James Fisher, Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche, as well as drummer Matt Tong, in New York alongside producers Randall Dunn [Sunn O))), Earth] and Ben Greenberg [Zs, Uniform (as featured on Twin Peaks season 3)]. There Is No Year is titled for author Blake Butler’s novel of the same name, a major inspiration to the band over the course of the album’s making.
Formed in London in 2012 by Fisher, Mahan and Tesche, friends from Atlanta who had been playing music together since childhood, the band recruited drummer Matt Tong (ex-Bloc Party) and signed to Matador in 2014. Since, they have toured relentlessly worldwide and released two massively acclaimed albums, 2015’s self titled and their breakthrough 2017 sophomore LP The Underside of Power.
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