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Tour Dates

  • 2 July 2022
    Kamasi Washington
    Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (TD Stage Place des Festivals)
  • 3 July 2022
    Kamasi Washington
    Ottawa Jazz Festival (TD Main Stage)
  • 6 July 2022
    Fucked Up
    Toronto Great Hall
  • 7 July 2022
    Fucked Up
    Toronto Great Hall
  • 9 July 2022
    Spoon
    Festival d'ete de Quebec
  • 9 July 2022
    Lucy Dacus
    Toronto Field Trip - Fort York & Garrison Common
  • 10 July 2022
    Lucy Dacus
    Toronto Opera House (SOLD OUT)
  • 11 July 2022
    Spoon
    London Music Hall
  • 12 July 2022
    Fucked Up
    Ottawa Club Saw
  • 13 July 2022
    Fucked Up
    Montreal Bar Le Ritz
  • 13 July 2022
    Lucy Dacus
    Montreal Theatre Corona (SOLD OUT)
  • 14 July 2022
    Lucy Dacus
    RBC Ottawa Bluesfest
  • 15 July 2022
    Perfume Genius
    Halifax Jazz Festival (Waterfront TD Main Stage)
  • 15 July 2022
    Horsegirl
    Vancouver Wise Hall
  • 17 July 2022
    The National
    Ottawa RBC Bluesfest
  • 18 July 2022
    Spoon
    Winnipeg Burton Cummings Theatre
  • 19 July 2022
    Spoon
    Regina Conexus Arts Theatre
  • 20 July 2022
    Spoon
    Saskatoon Coors Centre
  • 21 July 2022
    Pinegrove
    Montreal Le Studio TD
  • 22 July 2022
    Pinegrove
    Toronto Danforth Music Hall
  • 22 July 2022
    Spoon
    Edmonton Midway
  • 23 July 2022
    Spoon
    Calgary Folk Festival
  • 25 July 2022
    Spoon
    Victoria Capital Ballroom
  • 26 July 2022
    Spoon
    Vancouver Commodore Ballroom
  • 29 July 2022
    Circuit Des Yeux
    Sappy Fest Sackville NB
  • 30 July 2022
    Skiifall
    Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts
  • 31 July 2022
    Perfume Genius
    Vancouver Happyland Festival - PNE Amphitheatre
  • 31 July 2022
    Lucy Dacus
    Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts
  • 5 August 2022
    Horsegirl
    Toronto Velvet Underground
  • 6 August 2022
    Horsegirl
    Montreal Petit Campus
  • 6 August 2022
    The National
    Edmonton Folk Festival/Gallagher Park
  • 7 August 2022
    The National (with special guest Bartees Strange)
    Calgary Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium (SOLD OUT!)
  • 12 August 2022
    The Wild Hearts featuring Julien Baker (with Special guest Spencer.)
    Toronto Massey Hall
  • 13 August 2022
    The Wild Hearts featuring Julien Baker (with Special guest Spencer.)
    Toronto Massey Hall
  • 23 August 2022
    Koreless
    Montreal Mutek Edition 23 -August 23rd - August 28th
  • 25 August 2022
    Mdou Moctar
    Vancouver Rickshaw Theatre
  • 25 August 2022
    Bartees Strange (Special Guest of Metric)
    London Music Hall
  • 26 August 2022
    Interpol with Special Guests Spoon and Bartees Strange
    Toronto Budweiser Stage
  • 27 August 2022
    Bartees Strange (Special Guest of Metric)
    Ottawa National Arts Centre
  • 28 August 2022
    Smerz
    Mutek (August 23rd - August 28th)
  • 29 August 2022
    Bartees Strange (Special Guest of Metric)
    Montreal MTELUS
  • 30 August 2022
    Bartees Strange (Special Guest of Metric)
    Capitole de Quebec
  • 31 August 2022
    Skiifall
    Québec L'Impérial Bell
  • 1 September 2022
    Bartees Strange (Special Guest of Metric)
    Halifax Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
  • 2 September 2022
    Bartees Strange (Special Guests of Metric)
    Halifax Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
  • 11 September 2022
    Skiifall
    Toronto Rolling Loud
  • 20 September 2022
    Ibeyi
    Vancouver Vogue Theatre
  • 26 September 2022
    Pavement (With Special Guest Circuit des Yeux)
    Toronto Massey Hall (SOLD OUT)
  • 27 September 2022
    Ibeyi
    Toronto Danforth Music Hall
  • 27 September 2022
    Pavement (With Special Guests The Goon Sax)
    Toronto Massey Hall
  • 28 September 2022
    Ibeyi
    Montreal Corona Theatre
  • 29 September 2022
    caroline
    Toronto Long Boat Hall
  • 30 September 2022
    caroline
    Pop Montreal - La Sala Rossa
  • 4 October 2022
    Snail Mail
    Toronto History
  • 13 October 2022
    Overmono
    Vancouver Fortune Sound Club
  • 24 November 2022
    Jockstrap
    Montreal Bar Le Ritz
  • 25 November 2022
    Jockstrap
    Toronto Drake Underground
  • 25 November 2022
    The Smile
    Montreal M-Telus
  • 26 November 2022
    The Smile
    Toronto Massey Hall
  • 1 December 2022
    Jockstrap
    Vancouver Fox Cabaret
  • 10 December 2022
    Bartees Strange
    Vancouver Fox Cabaret

Releases

ALGIERS - THERE IS NO YEAR INDI EXCL LP / LP + 7" / CD IN STORES JAN 17

17 January 2020

On the back of their much-acclaimed standalone piece “Can The Sub_Bass Speak?,” Algiers return in
2020 with their third album ‘There Is No Year’, set for release January 17.
Under the direction of producers Randall Dunn [Sunn O))), Earth] and Ben Greenberg (Zs, Uniform [as
featured on Twin Peaks season 3]), There Is No Year encompasses future-minded post-punk R&B from
the trapped heart of ATL, where they began, industrial soundscapes à la 4AD-era Scott Walker or Iggy &
Bowie’s Berlin period and something like the synthetic son of Marvin Gaye and Fever Ray.
The album was recorded over the past year by childhood friends and Atlanta natives Franklin James
Fisher, Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche, as well as drummer Matt Tong, in New York.
Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year
traversing unprecedented ground. 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 vaster, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of
“a different era,” as described by guitarist Lee Tesche.
The clip for album track Dispossession was filmed in the Noisy le Grand commune in the eastern
Suburbs of Paris amidst modern architectural landmarks such as Le Palacio d’Abraxas and Les Arènes
de Picasso – and including images from the band’s visit to Algiers during the uprising in March 2019—
“Dispossession” captures one thread of Algiers’ expansive, future-oriented new body of work. The song
features additional vocals from Cleveland’s Mourning [A] BLKstar.
Beginning a global tour in Feb. 2020, the band return to Canada April 6th for a date in Toronto ( Baby
G’s) and April 7 in M o n t r é a l (Bar Le Ritz).
Formed in London in 2012 by Fisher, Mahan and Tesche, friends from Atlanta who had been playing
music together since childhood, the band recruited drummer Matt Tong (ex-Bloc Party) and signed to
Matador in 2014. Since, they have toured relentlessly and released two massively acclaimed albums,
2015’s self titled and their breakthrough 2017 sophomore LP The Underside of Power.

From 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. 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.
“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. He speaks of the record’s perspective as not only a political apparatus,
but an intimate, responsive evocation of his understanding that “nothing is ever what you expect”, that
what might seem for now to be well known or assured is not always so, that there is no safety net. The
effect, as felt on the record, is undeniable: Fisher sounds like he is singing for his life—for all our lives,
really—baring his soul while the walls disintegrate around us.
The pool that he draws on is at once penetrating and exhilarating, wielding its anguish like a mirror at
Medusa, full of hell. Whether he is lilting over post-Lynchian synth-whorl like a spot-lit bandleader, as on
“Unoccupied,” or reincarnating the spirit of thrumming 80s R&B into a proto-no wave dancefloor classic
straight from 2046, as on “Chaka,” there is a tangible emotional electricity to Fisher’s delivery, a personal
valence that makes you want, more than anything, to believe, even while not quite knowing where we’re
headed.

Selections:
1. There Is No Year
2. Dispossession
3. Hour of the Furnaces
4. Losing is Ours
5. Unoccupied
6. Chaka
7. Wait for The Sound
8. Repeating Night
9. We Can’t Be Found
10. Nothing Bloomed

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