Ah right, I should link my review here:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/algiers-there-is-no-year-review
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
Chaka the highlight so far for sure
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
Dispossession for me
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
"We Can't Be Found" and "Dispossession" are incredible.
― gman59, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
OK, it's been steadily growing on me even if I'm pretty sure it's the least of the three albums (though not by as much as I feared.)
I'm confused about how popular they are/aren't. They have significantly more monthly streams on Spotify than every band in their "fans also like" recommendations (including Iceage, Preoccupations, Savages, Protomartyr, and Tropical Fuck Storm) but on both visits here they are playing one of our very smallest dedicated venues.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
I was trying to remember why I didn't ever try to investigate Iceage and on a hunch googled Iceage racist
now I remember
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
I can't imagine their singer's vocal uh "stylings" would be much to yr liking anyway
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
I was disappointed to listen to the Trap Set interview with Matt Tong and not have Algiers touched on at all; Bloc Party and Algiers require totally different approaches and I'd like to have heard more about how he made the leap
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP) at 8:50 27 Jan 20I was trying to remember why I didn't ever try to investigate Iceage and on a hunch googled Iceage racistnow I remember
iirc correctly there's a thread here where Fred explains how his fellow Danes are not racist and everyone was too dumb to understand
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
plz do not summon anyone to this thread based on northern european politics
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 27 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
lol that’s all coming back to me now
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
they went on Colbert
https://youtu.be/JmzwOG06iUg
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 February 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
Put up a full live set from a couple of weeks ago in Dublin:
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-dublin-8-feb-2020
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 February 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
And this one from the other day! Apparently they're going to make a thing of it.
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-amsterdam-13-feb-2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
NYC show rescheduled to December 11. Something to look forward to.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
and then it wasn't
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 January 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
Been a couple of good solo things lately -- here's Ryan's:
https://dedmeet.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-their-world-is-coming
And here's Lee's:
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/mondo-decay
Meantime the band themselves put out this for the election -- a hell of a thing:
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/cleveland-20-20
And even a Christmas single!
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/algiers-crew-holiday-fan-club-digi-7inch
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 January 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
So Lee's Nun Gun project is out today per the link above -- and there's a dub version due in a couple of weeks. You might recognize some of the names (he said, drily).
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/stealth-maxi-dub-companion
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 February 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
New album en route and the new single is here with Backxwash and billy woods and it rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17SmU2Q_Qt0
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
oh this rules, hopefully the album is similarly cool because the last one just didn't quite do it for me
― ufo, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
omg this is fantastic, full portishead prog-rap-soul trip
― imago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 07:21 (one year ago) link
I felt like "Chaka" was a near-pinnacle for them and this isn't quite at that level but yes it's very promising for the new album.
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 September 2022 07:42 (one year ago) link
yeah I quite liked the last album but it def had Internet Backlash
― imago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
oh i didn't know RYM hated it lol, i just remember it being mostly more-of-the-same except not quite as strong as TUOP
― ufo, Thursday, 15 September 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
just a little underwhelming rather than being awful or anything
― ufo, Thursday, 15 September 2022 10:14 (one year ago) link
Fantano apparently piled in, you know the rest etc
― imago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 11:22 (one year ago) link
Piled in full knowing their history of sub(bass)tweeting their critics, even. Time for a sequel lads
― imago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 11:23 (one year ago) link
― imago, Thursday, September 15, 2022 3:04 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
now this one has internet backxwash
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link
😎
― imago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkWWzQPNrs
another very cool new single
album shook out feb 24
― ufo, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
late pass but bite back is fucking great
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
Saw some IG video clips of a December 15 gig in NY where they were joined onstage by guests including Billy Woods and Mark Cisneros; and I was impressed
https://www.thisisnotaphotograph.com/blog/2022/12/16/algiers-and-special-guests-at-national-sawdust
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2Uw9llbrg
the new album is sure shaping up well
― ufo, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
extremely cool, touch of Mars Volta to it dare i say
― imago, Thursday, 9 February 2023 09:11 (one year ago) link
interesting/awesome remix-not-remix album by nyc doing-it-wrong hiphop impresario king vision ultra aka geng aka head of ptp
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/shook-world-hosted-by-algiers
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 9 February 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
new album sounds pretty good on first listen
― ufo, Friday, 24 February 2023 06:08 (one year ago) link
It does indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 February 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
Enjoying this
― imago, Saturday, 25 February 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
Will be seeing them in a few weeks at Bottom of the Hill; they were great when I caught them for Underside of Power a while back but I suspect this show, with the catalog even deeper now, will be a hell of a thing.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 February 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
Algiers not happy with Under the Radar site negative review
no one could accuse under the radar of knowing what theyre talking about— Algiers (@AlgiersMusic) February 25, 2023
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 February 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
Haha. Well presuming they read all the criticism of them, this is easily their best album yet imo
― imago, Sunday, 26 February 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
yeah it's fantastic, definitely their best
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 08:22 (one year ago) link