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Algiers (Algiers album)

Algiers
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Studio album by Algiers
Released June 2, 2015 (2015-06-02)
Recorded April–June 2014
4AD Studios
London
Genre Post-punk, gospel music, psychedelic soul
Length 44:35
Label Matador
Producer Algiers and Tom Morris
Algiers chronology
Algiers
(2015)
The Underside of Power
(2017)The Underside of Power2017
Singles from Algiers
  1. "But She Was Not Flying"
    Released: 22 January 2015
  2. "Blood"
    Released: 24 February 2015
  3. "Irony. Utility. Pretext."
    Released: 24 March 2015
  4. "Black Eunuch"
    Released: 14 April 2015
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 79/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Drowned in Sound 9/10
musicOMH 4/5 stars
NME 8/10
Pitchfork 7.7/10
PopMatters 8/10 stars
The 405 8/10

Algiers is the eponymous debut album by American experimental band Algiers. The album was released through Matador Records on June 2, 2015.

Algiers received positive feedback from contemporary music critics upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 13 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated that, "Algiers, both band and album, offer musical and topical intensity alternately malevolent and passionate in searching and affirming truth, human and otherworldly. All of these seemingly disparate historical musical elements are distilled in such a startling manner, they carve something new from the fragments. This is a stunning debut."

All personnel credits adapted from Algiers album notes.

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