![]() ![]() “What I wanted to do is create a negative space wherein I can exist and engage but at the same time not be so exposed,” Fisher explains. At the forefront of this evolution is the centrality of power housed in Algiers’ multi-instrumentalist lead vocalist, Franklin James Fisher, whose voice and words provide the backbone of the album, his lyrics sourced entirely from an epic poem, “Misophonia,” composed during his search for meaning amidst a protracted personal period of anxiety and lack. 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.įrom the instant synth-pulse of the opening seconds of There is No Year, it’s clear that Algiers have set out to stake new ground, internally as much as sonically. Indeed, even those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction traversing unprecedented ground. I said, ‘I’m gonna croon this one,’ so croon I did.In the FBI file on the American rock ‘n’ roll band Algiers-which given their prior penchant for repping the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, and Afeni Shakur, among others, surely exists-under the subheading for their third album, There is No Year, the intelligence should soon read: all prior analytics appear outdated… this undoes everything we thought we knew about their intentions…what hides inside them… as if they are mutating live on camera, between frames… I like to try different things, and I got to be a character a little bit inside the song. There are echoes of each of them in there. On that song, I remember when I started singing it, I was imagining Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Eric Carmen-those were the three lines that popped into my head. I’ve also been singing for a long time now, and I’ve learned some tricks along the way. “I stopped smoking five years ago,” he explained in an Entertainment Weekly interview, “and my voice is able to do things it wasn’t able to do when I was a smoker. Beginning with a familiar “Be My Baby” beat, “Algiers” segues right into a heart-sinking ballad, complete with a gentle guitar strum, a steady-handed rhythm section and Dulli’s subtle vocal shifts. ![]() The day all you Gen X’ers have been waiting for is finally here-the day Greg Dulli leads his old band The Afghan Whigs in their first proper single since the Clinton years. ![]()
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