I Can’t Stand It

Hip-Rap-Hop-Rock Act ALGIERS Released Their Astounding Tour De Force Album ‘SHOOK’

Posted on by JL

26 February 2023

Band: American/English indie hip-rap-hop-rock
outfit formed in Atlanta.
Active: Since 2012 / 4 LPs (new one included)

New album: SHOOK
Released: 25 February 2023.
Order info here.

The New York Times says: “Throughout the album, Algiers lashes out at injustice,
exults in its sonic mastery and insists on the life forces of solidarity and physical impact.
But it refuses to promise any consolation.” Score: 8/10.


(Press – FB Algiers)

TUTV: Algiers nail it big time with their 4th full length. Remarkably varied in sonic performance. They jump from zestful hip-rap-hop to forceful post-punk-rock, to
soulful lullabies, to arresting spoken-word protest, to ruminative gospel. 54 minutes
long, but you get sucked in Algiers’ 2023 for every second, never a dull moment. Astounding tour de force. Touchdown!

STANDOUT TRACKS: Everybody Shatters / Irreversible Damage
A Good Man / Green Iris / Cold World / Momentary.

KEY SINGLES: 73% – Irreversible Damage – I Can’t Stand It

– 73% –

– IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE –
Feat. RAGTM’s frontman Zack De La Rocha

– I CAN’T STAND IT –
Feat. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews

ALBUM

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Amazing Artwork – Debut LP LOU REED 50 Years Ago

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Eye-catching album art

27 April 2022

50 years ago this month late genius LOU REED released his self-titled commercially
and critically disappointing debut LP. In retrospect, it’s not a bad album whatsoever.
It’s a characteristic pop/rock Reed album with several tracks greatly reworked on later
LPs, but the production here sucks.

AllMusic said: “On its own terms, Lou Reed isn’t a bad album, but it isn’t a terribly interesting one either, and since superior performances of most of these songs are available elsewhere, it stands today more as a historical curiosity than anything else.”

Anecdote 1: Keyboardist Rick Wakeman and guitarist Steve Howe from the celebrated progressive rock band YES played on all tracks. Yes, a truly bizarre combination.

Anecdote 2: Wakeman said about the recording sessions,
“the lights had to be out so nobody could see.”

Artwork: Designed by Tom Adams. The US-born Anglo-Scots illustrator and painter who
is best known for his book cover art for the paperback editions of Agatha Christie.


Artwork by Adams

Key track

Full album

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LOU REED: Story – All Albums