“Algiers make the sort of albums that should come with reading lists, which is a great and terrible thing. The transatlantic experimental rock quartet care passionately about ideas, and their music’s ability to introduce those ideas, but they’re stranded in our age of excess. Everyone has less time to listen, we just want the new new, constant stimulation, infinite variety, or the same old, over an”
“Algiers push themselves further than ever on the furious There Is No Year”
“The Atlanta quartet lose some of their revolutionary energy on their synth-heavy third record”
“Grounded in historical horrors and gesturing darkly at personal demons, the gospel-punk band’s third album is shot through with dread.”
“Algiers play it dismayingly safe on their third album.”
“In case you hadn’t noticed, everything’s fucked. The climate crisis, Boris-Trump-Brexit, surveillance capitalism, Syria-Yemen-Palestine – 2019’s particular tableau of apocalyptica was as rich and varied as any that have come before, and to add to the fun, there’s nothing you can do about it. Algiers, you sense, realise this: the cover of their third album features a photograph of a man in a busine”
