ALGIERS - Shook 2LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition gold colour vinyl.

Includes lyric booklet.

If Algiers is not part of your conversation of where alternative, gothic, post-punk or noise music is within the past decade, you’re missing a big part of that conversation.

Shook pushes the post-punk and post-industrial concepts into more hip-hop styles than the more gospel and soul ideas they had been doing. Not to say those influences are gone, because the lead singer of the band still brings that very spiritual delivery when he contributes, but it’s the features that add the true depth to the record that felt missing on past releases. From underground hip hop legends like Billy Woods and Backxwash, to avant-folk phenom Nadah el Shazly, everything is still housed within the general idea that the band has built but everything feels more expanded upon and realized than ever before.