Algiers The Underside of Power Omen Pre-Rahsaan

Pre-Rahsaan

Confident grooves underly the duo's masses of harmonies and carefully layered guitar chimes for what the pair consider one of their most varied efforts to date

Courtney is known for mixing witty observations with unflinching self-assessment - fast forward to now and although all of the cleaver turns of phrase and an eye for story telling are still there

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Composing much of their own material rather than relying solely on the hidebound traditional repertoire

Algiers The Underside of Power Omen Pre-RahsaanThis is the musical response that dark times demand, one that not only shakes its fist but deploys it. Locally informed global citizens, Algiers refuse to sit idly by while most contemporary artists appear perfectly content to sit out the revolution. Not only do Algiers harbor a purposeful sense of obligation in what they do on their latest resistance record The Underside Of Power, but they recognize the roots and thorns of precedent in said