Algiers - Shook
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BJD9CD7H/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
This feels like it was recorded in the middle of a Floyd George riot, a bleak, dark album, defiantly of the zeitgeist.
As ever, Algiers veer from soul through jazz to gospel to indie and back, often in the same song. This time there is even a bit of MC5s bookended with some trap.
Multiple collaborations pulled into this album including Samuel T Herring, Zack de la Rocha and more, with Big Rube as narrator.
Lots of short spoken word pieces, combined with quite a few songs of 2 or 3 minute length adding to the chaotic, visceral, jittery feel of this album.
Multi facetted, multi-layered, I wouldn't say it always works musically, but definitely a massively powerful soundtrack to these difficult years.
Difficult, heady, demanding listen. I doubt I'll hear anything as good as this in 2023.
This is one of the more approachable tracks, Bite Back, featuring Backxwash and Billy Woods: