Algiers

"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. Pretext' toys with camp industrial techno, and the gaunt menace of Suicide lurks throughout, but generally this is fairly accessible stuff. And that's no bad thing, as Franklin James Fisher's politically insurgent lyrics deserve to be heard".

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"There's just so much going on, so much to wonder at. Even in the record's latter stages, we find the spellbinding 'Games' and 'In Parallax' , two tracks that lesser bands would build whole albums around, buried deep in the later recesses of an album, running the risk of being ignored and unheard by those without the attention span to persist. Ensure you do. If you don't you'll be totally missing out. The latter, particularly, is a real highlight, as a driving beat and elastic bass part give Fisher the space to really let rip. As if he hasn't been doing that throughout the album, this song serves notice that there is still even further for this astonishing vocalist to go in maximizing the scope of his vocal performances".

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