On February 24, Algiers will release SHOOK (Matador Records), the band’s fourth album. This spring, the band will embark on a North American tour, which will kick off in Austin, TX at SXSW and conclude in Toronto.

Last night, Algiers performed a special one-off gig at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust. Over two sets, the band debuted material from SHOOK alongside many of the guest artists who appear on the album, including Amani, Big Rube, billy woods, DeForrest Brown Jr., Desde, Dreamcrusher, Elucid, Fatboi Sharif, King Vision Ultra, Latoya Kent, Maassai, Mark Cisneros, Nakama, and Patrick Shiroishi.

Stacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, SHOOK is a lightning rod for an elusive yet universal energy and feeling. A plurality of voices; a spiritual and geographical homecoming; a strategy of communion in a burning world; the story of an end of a relationship; an Atlanta front porch summer party. Ultimately, it’s a 17-track set of the most mind-expanding and thrilling music that you are likely to hear anytime soon.

While community and collaboration have always been integral to Algiers’ ethos, SHOOK brings this to its fullest manifestation. The liner notes read like a who’s who of ground-breaking and contemporary underground music, featuring Zack de la Rocha, Big Rube (The Dungeon Family), billy woods, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher), LaToya Kent (Mourning [A] BLKstar), Backxwash, Nadah El Shazly, DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music), Patrick Shiroishi, Lee Bains III, and Mark Cisneros (Hammered Hulls, The Make-Up, Kid Congo Powers). Their contributions deftly reshape and recontextualize the notion of being Shook from a variety of perspectives, occupying shifting roles as oracles and narrators.

TOUR DATES

Dec 15 Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust

Jan 26 Fort Collins, CO @ Washington’s Foco

Feb 9 Dublin, IE @ Workman’s

Feb 10-12 The Hague, NL @ Grauzone Festival

Feb 15 Brussels, BE @ Botanique Rotonde

Feb 16 Winterthur, CH @ Salzhaus

Feb 17 Ravenna, IT @ Bronson

Feb 18 Pordenone, IT @ Capitol

Feb 20 Ljubljana, SL @ Kino Šiška

Feb 21 Vienna, AT @ Flex

Feb 22 Linz, AT @ Posthof

Feb 24 Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Music Bar

Feb 25 Warsaw, PL @ Niebo

Mar 1 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol

Mar 2 Berlin, DE @ Hole44

Mar 3 Bielefeld, DE @ Forum

Mar 4 Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur

Mar 5 Cologne, DE @ Club Volta

Mar 7 Paris, FR @ Petit Bain

 Mar 8 London, UK @ The Dome

Mar 13-18 Austin, TX @ SXSW

Mar 19 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge

Mar 20 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

Mar 21 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory NOHO

Mar 23 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill

Mar 25 Portland, OR @ Show Bar at Revolution Hall

Mar 26 Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s

Mar 29 Minneapolis, MN @ 7^th Street Entry

Mar 30 Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village

Mar 31 Louisville, KY @ Whirling Tiger

Apr 2 Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival

Apr 3 Durham, NC @ The Pinhook

Apr 4 Washington, DC @ DC9

Apr 5 Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA

Apr 6 New York, NY @ Racket

Apr 7 Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo

Apr 8 Toronto, ON @ The Garrison