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Algiers
An intense, frantic collision of soulful Southern gospel passion with
experimental, post-punk jams and raging political slogans, Algiers create a
sound informed by the historic racial tensions of their home town, Atlanta,
Georgia, filled with futuristic, industrial dread. Front man Franklin James
Fisher grew up in the suburbs and learned to sing in church, but discovered punk
as a teenager and was teaching in Paris when he started sharing musical and
philosophical ideas with old university friends Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche.
The band originally came together in London in 2007 b...
