“On the sprawling, multilayered Shook, Algiers kicks its own doors open even further, using the studio to transform the band into something like a commune.” – New York Times ‘Critic’s Pick’
“Shook’ evokes the frantic, overwhelming bad-news onslaught of circa-now life. People felt besieged by information in 1988, too, and the Bomb Squad drew on that feeling when they produced Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’. ‘Shook’ feels like an attempt to translate that feeling to an even-more jagged age” – Stereogum ‘Album Of The Week’
“On Shook, [Algiers] draw on noise, punk, hardcore, industrial, and power electronics to create a musical backdrop that crackles like a humid sky before a thunderstorm.” – Bandcamp (Essential Release)
“Algiers’ Shook is an era-defining post-punk masterpiece.” – Afropunk
“The Algiers coalition is strong, talented, and not about to go down quietly.” – Pitchfork
In December, Algiers performed a special one-off gig at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust. Over two sets, the band debuted material from its new album ‘SHOOK’ alongside many of the guest-artists who appear on the record, including Amani, Big Rube, billy woods, DeForrest Brown Jr., Desde, Dreamcrusher, Elucid, Fatboi Sharif, King Vision Ultra, Latoya Kent, Maassai, Mark Cisneros, and Patrick Shiroishi.
Today you can watch the complete concert, which was filmed by Hate5six. It’s a singular document – Algiers’ captured at its most visceral and exploratory in the company of the band’s extended community.
NEW ALBUM ‘SHOOK’ OUT NOW
“The world got shook.” So Algiers formed a crew. The band—who have built one of the most exciting catalogs and cult followings of recent years gathered a posse of like-minded artists to create their fourth album, SHOOK. Stacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, the record 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 hear anytime soon.
Read the full album bio HERE
TRACKLIST
- Everybody Shatter (ft. Big Rube)
- Irreversible Damage
- 73%
- Cleanse Your Guilt Here
- As It Resounds (ft. Big Rube)
- Bite Back (ft. billy woods & Backxwash)
- Out of Style Tragedy (ft. Mark Cisneros)
- Comment #2
- A Good Man
- I Can’t Stand It! (ft. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews)
- All You See Is
- Green Iris
- Born (ft. LaToya Kent)
- Cold World (ft. Nadah El Shazly)
- Something Wrong
- An Echophonic Soul (ft. DeForrest Brown Jr. & Patrick Shiroishi)
- Momentary (ft. Lee Bains III)
