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Shook

Algiers

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Algiers don't need to answer for their musical lineage. The Atlanta-rooted band has made it clear in the decade since their debut single "Blood" that their crates run deeper than nearly any other group you could still generally file under rock. But while their hip-hop/post-punk eclecticism has its own integrity—being neither pure throwbacks nor decade-zero iconoclasts, given to avoid both stagnant genre-purism and touristy checkbox eclecticism—Shook reminds you that it's all for a purpose. It's thrilling enough to hear an ambitious, accomplished rock group that recognizes and converses with the world outside rock: how Wild Style first-generation hip-hop is refracted through dub and Dungeon Family on "Everybody Shatter," the way "Green Iris" sinks into an intense soul-jazz meditation that opens its third eye to envision gauzy electro-soul, and the nods to the sonics of Afrofuturists from RZA ("Cleanse Your Guilt Here") to Sun Ra ("Out of Style Tragedy"). But their more straightforward punk-lineage cuts—"73%" and "A Good Man" chief among them—hardly suffer as a result; this band knows its way around a good kick-in-the-teeth riff. And Algiers' opened doors bring in a community of collaborators that make rise to the level of the album's breadth, whether it's Zack de la Rocha getting secular-Old Testament on the RTJ-esque abrasive bounce of "Irreversible Damage," or billy woods and Backxwash heightening the pressurized doom-synth tension of "Bite Back," or even Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands) and Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher) skulking through the apocalyptic gospel of "I Can't Stand It!'' like melodic ghosts. Beyond all that, Shook is also the sound of an idea that is given an intensely resonant voice by Franklin James Fisher and the group's collaborative, reconstructed instrumentation adds life to: that catharsis is useless without joy, that struggling people can define themselves by something other than that struggle, and that if we're going to spend all this time fighting a stifling system we at least have each others' backs. © Nate Patrin/Qobuz

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1
Everybody Shatter
00:04:46

Mark Stewart, AssociatedPerformer - Ruben Bailey, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Big Rube, FeaturedArtist - Fred Braithwaite, Composer - Heba Kadry, Engineer - Ayse Hassan, AssociatedPerformer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Missing Link Music, MusicPublisher - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - These Are Big Sounds Publishing, MusicPublisher - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Death To The Fakers, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Mark Cisneros, StudioMusician - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tristan Griffin, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - Mr Bongo Publishing obo Mad Monkey, MusicPublisher

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2
Irreversible Damage
00:04:42

Zack De La Rocha, FeaturedArtist - Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - World War Publishing, MusicPublisher - WORD WAR PUBLISHING, MusicPublisher

2023 Matador Records 2022 Matador Records

3
73% Explicit
00:02:37

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Producer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, ComposerLyricist - Tristan Griffin, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, MixingEngineer

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4
Cleanse Your Guilt Here
00:01:34

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Monika Khot, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer

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5
As It Resounds
00:01:20

Ruben Bailey, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Big Rube, FeaturedArtist - Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Missing Link Music, MusicPublisher - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Death To The Fakers, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, MixingEngineer

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

6
Bite Back
00:06:00

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Billy Woods, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Joe Bochniak, StudioMusician - James Longs, StudioMusician - Kyle Kidd, StudioMusician - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - BACKXWASH, FeaturedArtist - Ashanti Mutinta, StudioMusician - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mawa Keita, StudioMusician - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - Shanti Mutinta, ComposerLyricist - MECHANT VAPORWAVE INC, MusicPublisher

2023 Matador Records 2022 Matador Records

7
Out of Style Tragedy
00:03:12

Sun Ra, Lyricist - Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Enterplanetary Koncepts, MusicPublisher - Franklin James Fisher, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Mark Cisneros, Composer, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Allen Lee Tesche, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer - ASCAP IPI NAME NUMBER #627432648, MusicPublisher

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8
Comment #2 Explicit
00:00:38

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - An dó, StudioMusician - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer

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9
A Good Man
00:02:17

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tristan Griffin, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

10
I Can't Stand It!
00:03:25

Heba Kadry, Engineer - IQ Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lee Moses, Composer - Samuel T. Herring, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alex Weston, Producer - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Alex Weill, StudioMusician - JAEBOYHARSHER, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jae Matthews, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Susan D. Mandel, StudioMusician - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Cutler, MixingEngineer - Brianne Lugo, StudioMusician - Ghati Music Co, MusicPublisher - ASCAP JAEBOYHARSHER, MusicPublisher

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11
All You See Is… Explicit
00:01:06

Gary Thomas, StudioMusician - Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

12
Green Iris
00:06:17

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Mark Cisneros, StudioMusician - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sonya Belaya, StudioMusician - Caleb Flood, StudioMusician - Robyn Fisher, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, Programmer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - Shea Curry, StudioMusician

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13
Born
00:01:26

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Felix Blume, StudioMusician - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - LaToya Kent, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Uno Lady, MusicPublisher - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer - David Dickie, Composer, AssociatedPerformer

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

14
Cold World
00:04:18

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, Producer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Nadah El Shazly, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - Nada Mohsen Anwar Ebid Elshazly, ComposerLyricist

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

15
Something Wrong Explicit
00:04:53

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tristan Griffin, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

16
An Echophonic Soul
00:02:32

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - DeForrest Brown Jr., FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Patrick Shiroishi, Composer, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

17
Momentary
00:03:23

Heba Kadry, Engineer - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Algiers, Producer, MainArtist - Matthew Chee Hung Tong, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Franklin James Fisher, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan Mahan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt (BMI), MusicPublisher - Lee Bains, III, Lyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Allen Lee Tesche, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lou the Dog, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Bains, FeaturedArtist - Matthew Ricchini, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Fine Boy Music, MusicPublisher

2023 Matador Records 2023 Matador Records

Album review

Algiers don't need to answer for their musical lineage. The Atlanta-rooted band has made it clear in the decade since their debut single "Blood" that their crates run deeper than nearly any other group you could still generally file under rock. But while their hip-hop/post-punk eclecticism has its own integrity—being neither pure throwbacks nor decade-zero iconoclasts, given to avoid both stagnant genre-purism and touristy checkbox eclecticism—Shook reminds you that it's all for a purpose. It's thrilling enough to hear an ambitious, accomplished rock group that recognizes and converses with the world outside rock: how Wild Style first-generation hip-hop is refracted through dub and Dungeon Family on "Everybody Shatter," the way "Green Iris" sinks into an intense soul-jazz meditation that opens its third eye to envision gauzy electro-soul, and the nods to the sonics of Afrofuturists from RZA ("Cleanse Your Guilt Here") to Sun Ra ("Out of Style Tragedy"). But their more straightforward punk-lineage cuts—"73%" and "A Good Man" chief among them—hardly suffer as a result; this band knows its way around a good kick-in-the-teeth riff. And Algiers' opened doors bring in a community of collaborators that make rise to the level of the album's breadth, whether it's Zack de la Rocha getting secular-Old Testament on the RTJ-esque abrasive bounce of "Irreversible Damage," or billy woods and Backxwash heightening the pressurized doom-synth tension of "Bite Back," or even Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands) and Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher) skulking through the apocalyptic gospel of "I Can't Stand It!'' like melodic ghosts. Beyond all that, Shook is also the sound of an idea that is given an intensely resonant voice by Franklin James Fisher and the group's collaborative, reconstructed instrumentation adds life to: that catharsis is useless without joy, that struggling people can define themselves by something other than that struggle, and that if we're going to spend all this time fighting a stifling system we at least have each others' backs. © Nate Patrin/Qobuz

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