Algiers: Being in a band is like being a shark - keep moving or die

“If you’re hopeful without pessimism it’s quite naive, and if you’re just pessimistic, it’s fucking cynical” Ryan Mahan, bassist in Algiers, told Guardian in an interview about band's new album 'There Is No Year' (out today). This idea permeates the album sonically, as frontman Franklin Fisher explains - “there’s a larger theme of sound that’s revisited throughout the record. Sound as something that is redemptive and threatening and soothing and everything in between”. They have always been very political, which affects their music - "the political situation is complex, so the ways of speaking about it must be complex because otherwise it’s anachronistic, and that doesn’t work for me”, Fisher said. Watch the video for their new song 'We Can't Be Found' below.