Following the arresting recent standalone piece ‘Can The Sub_Bass Speak?’, Algiers return in 2020 with third album There Is No Year, which will be released January 17th on Matador Records. This bracing and transformative latest chapter from the Atlanta via London/NYC group can be previewed now with the video for first single ‘Dispossession’.
Even those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. Coming off two years of nonstop world-touring for their critically acclaimed second album, The Underside of Power—including Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the Balkans, where they have established a rabid following; an extended stint opening for Depeche Mode in huge stadiums such as the 75,000-capacity Olympiastadion in Berlin; as well as Glastonbury 2019—There is No Year solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even more epic, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of “a different era,” as described by guitarist Lee Tesche.
“’Dispossession’ sounds the warning about the permanent war against oblivion,” says video director and academic at the University of California, Irvine, Sohail Daultazi. “Filmed in Paris video opens with the sites of colonial massacres of Algerians, moves to the repressive spaces of the banlieues, and includes shots of the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale – a park that celebrates the glories of empire. But this is not just about the past or Paris, it is everywhere that the banner of the West is waved, where monuments to our ruin are raised – reminders of the ongoing violence, of the tensions between dream and its discontents, past and present, them and us. I wanted to give visual resonance to these tensions, to our dignified stances amidst the madness, and to our memories of a future foretold.”
Multi-instrumentalist Ryan Mahan says: “The spectre of dispossession is haunting us all. Everywhere the imperial world represses the ghoulish histories that sustain our pasts, presents and futures. Franklin’s lyrics throughout “Dispossession” and our new record, There is No Year, like a neo-Southern Gothic novel with an anti-oppression undercurrent, testify to this modern horror, and chronicle the various ways we all – through living and longing – endure and resist its persistent attacks.”
Algiers play a headline tour of the UK and Europe in February, including a show at London’s Village Underground on February 5th
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Tour Dates
3 February Brighton, UK – The Haunt (tickets)
5 February London, UK – Village Underground (tickets)
6 February Manchester, UK – YES (tickets)
7 February Glasgow, UK – Stereo (tickets)
8 February Dublin, IRE – Whelans (tickets)
10 February Leeds, UK – Brudenell (tickets)
