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Each release showcases the band's evolution and growth as artists. With their innovative approach to music-making and fearless exploration of new sonic territories, Algiers continues to push boundaries and challenge conventions within the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shook-2","title":"Shook","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlgiers returns with \u003ci\u003eShook\u003c\/i\u003e, their first new music since 2020’s\u003ci\u003e There Is No Year. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eShook\u003c\/i\u003e features contributions from Rage Against The Machine’s Zack De La Rocha, Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews, Big Rube, billy woods, Backxwash, and many more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, \u003ci\u003eShook\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlgiers have always been unflinching, but \u003ci\u003eShook\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Thistriggered 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 Dïat – chopping and screwing beats on a dusty SP-404 and a Sequential Circuits Tempest, building imagined sample libraries from scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile community and collaboration has always been integral to Algiers’ ethos, \u003ci\u003eShook\u003c\/i\u003e brings this to its fullest manifestation. 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Steeped in radical politics and deeply indebted to post-punk's sonic trailblazing and gospel's spiritual bloodletting, the album imbues neo-modernist hymns with caustic social sentiment and explosive noise. Algiers comprises singer \/ guitarist Franklin James Fisher, guitarist Lee Tesche, and bassist Ryan Mahan. From the militant stomp of 'Remains' to Fisher's commanding presence on the gospel no wave blowout 'Black Eunuch,' Algiers channels righteous fury into an incisive, innovative assault. 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