{"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. The liner notes read like a who’s who of ground-breaking and contemporary underground music, featuring Zack de la Rocha, Big Rube (The Dungeon Family), billy woods, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher), LaToya Kent (Mourning [A] BLKstar), Backxwash, Nadah El Shazly, DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music), Patrick Shiroishi, Lee Bains III, and Mark Cisneros (The Make-Up, Kid Congo Powers). Their contributions throughout deftly reshape and recontextualize the notion of being Shook from a variety of perspectives, occupying shifting roles as oracles and narrators. “It very much deepens and broadens the world of Algiers”, says drummer Matt Tong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"Gold LPx2","offer_id":50426447331659,"sku":"2000873","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50426446807371,"sku":"2000871","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50426447036747,"sku":"2000872","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Algiers_Shook_50c8e53b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726810166","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/shook-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}