Algiers: Shook – VINYL LP

Title: Shook
Artist: Algiers
Label: Matador Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 191401178419
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2023-02-24
Number of Discs: 2

Double vinyl LP pressing. 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 Dat – chopping and screwing beats on a dusty SP-404 and a Sequential Circuits Tempest, building imagined sample libraries from scratch.

Tracks:
1.1 Everybody Shatter
1.2 Irreversible Damage
1.3 73%
1.4 Cleanse Your Guilt Here
1.5 As It Resounds
1.6 Bite Back
1.7 Out of Style Tragedy
1.8 Comment #2
1.9 Good Man
2.1 I Can’t Stand It!
2.2 All You See Is
2.3 Green Iris
2.4 Born
2.5 Cold World
2.6 Something Wrong
2.7 Echophonic Soul
2.8 Momentary