★★★★★
Ferocious post-punk with a wild gospel tinge and fueled by a seething, political current. Vocalist Franklin James Fisher sings and barks like a snake-handling pastor; the mangled guitar tones and jittery rhythms match him with their thrilling, dangerous feel. One of the rare new acts with a truly original sound. (www.algierstheband.com)
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2015-07-20
★★★★★
The bemoaning of popular culture (or an inability to keep up with the Kardashians) for an apparent 'lack of depth' is a redundant pastime undertaken principally by morons with too much spare time and not enough peripheral vision. Like classic car fairs, this kind of cynical critique is the remit of Golden Age revisionists - people (almost exclusively White Male people) nostalgic for a time that simply never existed...
- thequietus.com
2015-06-05
★★★★★
Algiers are a heavy band, though not so much in sound as in effect--they're getting shit off their chest and piling it directly onto yours. Raised in the American South, they personify the foot-stomped physicality, call-and-response communiques, and outsized oration of the church, but their music is the anti-gospel...
- pitchfork.com
2015-06-01
★★★★★
This London/NYC-via-Atlanta trio's debut album is an electrifying blend of edgy post-punk with soul and gospel, featuring a dark, haunting sound with ominous guitar squalls, icy synths, hypnotic drum-machine rhythms, gritty, soulful lead vocals, gospel-influenced harmonies and politically charged lyrics. Easily one of this year's most powerful albums. 5/29/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-05-30
★★★★★
Current touring buddies of Matador label-mates Interpol, serve notice here with a debut album of brooding, almost malevolent intensity, that they have the potential to emulate, and perhaps even surpass, the success of their more illustrious forebears. Seriously. There is that much potential in this self-titled debut album. You may very well scoff...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2015-05-28
★★★★★
The debut album by Algiers, who formed in Atlanta and currently reside in London and New York, exemplifies the difference between 'influenced by' and 'sounds like'. The trio's lionising of free jazz (Peter Brötzmann), no wave (DNA) and rap (Public Enemy) prepares you for a noisy barrage. In fact, 'Algiers' is often akin to a more abrasive UNKLE album: full of lung-busting gospel vocals, drum machines and scrawly goth guitar. 'Irony. Utility...
- www.nme.com
2015-05-27
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