Christian Högstedt
After the recent standalone single Can The Sub_Bass Speak?, Algiers have confirmed their new album There Is No Year for release in 2020.
It’ll be out on January 17th next year, following up 2017’s The Underside Of Power, and is being previewed with first single Dispossession. “Dispossession sounds the warning about the permanent war against oblivion,” says the video’s director Sohail Daultazi.
“Filmed in Paris video opens with the sites of colonial massacres of Algerians, moves to the repressive spaces of the banlieues, and includes shots of the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale – a park that celebrates the glories of empire.”
“But this is not just about the past or Paris, it is everywhere that the banner of the West is waved, where monuments to our ruin are raised – reminders of the ongoing violence, of the tensions between dream and its discontents, past and present, them and us.”
“I wanted to give visual resonance to these tensions, to our dignified stances amidst the madness, and to our memories of a future foretold.”
