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Subido: 2015/01/22

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But She Was Not Flying

I’m going home to see the king

He’s gonna take my pain away

I’m gonna see my friends again

If only I can make it in

But there’s a lizard with a human face

He says he’s standing for democracy

And every wealthy man has earned his place

As did the undeserving in their poverty

He told my brother that he wasn’t a man

He broke my sister down again and again

His fathers stole and wrote the laws of the land

And now he flips the coin of power with all of his friends

Deciding who is fit to go out and die

And who is black enough to be left behind

And who will model their exceptional lie

And just how many they can murder at the border line

I knew a women with a scale in her hand

They bound and gagged her with the laws of the land

She couldn’t tell what she was measuring

So they tilt the scale to meet their own personal ends

Saying “I’ll shoot your son if he’s out of line”

“I’ll rape your daughters underground where I hide”

“And I can murder anytime that I like”

“cause I’m protected at my left and my right”

“I got a side that says I’m only a man”

“Another side that puts the gun in my hand”

“I’ll trade your product of environment”

“For any alibi for consequence”

Comentarios

9 years ago

Ethan Judd

Very cool.

9 years ago

Mat Mat-ina

Una cosa così non s’era mai sentita. Il suono è vibrante eppure stilizzato, da pop d’avanguardia: beat marziali, strumenti effettati, bordoni di tastiere elettroniche, cori gospel da giorno del giudizio. Sono gli Algiers, il trio americano che ha regalato un suono nuovo alla canzone di protesta. Scrivono pezzi potenti, perfettamente dentro il pop contemporaneo fatto di segni sonori cumulati con parsimonia ed efficacia, in una sintesi di strumenti acustici, elettrici ed elettronici che suona perfettamente naturale. E firmano un disco folgorante, seducente e sinistro, intenso e selvaggio, saturo di fervore militante. Sono in tre e vengono da Atlanta, la città della Coca Cola e di Martin Luther King. La musica degli Algiers ha la crudezza elettronica della band di Alan Vega, i suoni gelidi della contemporaneità, le distorsioni chitarristiche e gli spigoli del post punk, i rumori dell’industrial, lo spirito del punk-rock, ma anche il conforto derivante da una voce che per impeto ed espressività si riallaccia ai grandi cantanti afroamericani del Novecento oppure incita con rauca veemenza alla rivolta fino a saturare il suono. Il tono è ora tormentato, ora teso, ora selvaggio. Gli arrangiamenti sono stilizzati e densi, i colori carichi, l’espressività viva.In antitesi col distacco ironico di cui s’alimentano oggigiorno il rock e il pop, “Algiers” rilancia un’idea di musica che mira a scuotere dall’apatia, che è cosciente del passato, ma non passatista. E lo stesso vale per la musica. Essenziale e potente, mette assieme stili che fino a ieri sembravano inconciliabili – ecco perché suona così nuova e stimolante, un mondo da esplorare. Convinti che “nella seconda metà del ventesimo secolo la chitarra ha commesso più crimini pop di qualunque altro strumento”, gli Algiers hanno costruito un microcosmo sonoro originale e lontano dai clichè del rock, inventando un ibrido gospel-noise che è spirituale e viscerale. In “Algiers” troverete un nuovo tipo di bellezza, funerea e intimidente.

9 years ago

george vasiliou

an excellent blend of ambient jazz hardcore punk and hip hop with piercing lyrics thatdig throught the dark side of American historyan elegy for the opressed and a loud cry for justicecertainly a breath of fresh air musically

9 years ago

Andy Fulton

This is one of those songs I just keep coming back toIt's magnetic

9 years ago

Sockbot27

1. Great album.

9 years ago

ollie aldridge

lol advert for the Algiers record before the video

9 years ago

tomthebodz

Randomly, when I played this video I had an advert for the album before it.

9 years ago

craftyveteran

This is fucking amazing.

9 years ago

Andrew Scott

Great lyrics, as well. Really hope this all comes together for them. Going on tour, opening for interpol is a ballsy move. Especially without an album yet. With that kind of opportunity, though, you can't turn it down. I just wish i had heard a little more of their music before seeing them three days ago. I could have anticipated the music better, and really appreciated what I was seeing. It's definitely worth appreciating, because it was a great show. The crowd didn't fully appreciate what they were seeing though. Or at least I thought they didnt. Anyways, glad I saw them. I'll be listening for sure. Hopefully this album drops soon. 

10 years ago

inphanta

These guys need to do something with Saul Williams.

10 years ago

Brian LaPan

Wow. Love these guys. Can't wait for the record to drop.

10 years ago

julian kenning

oh yes!

10 years ago

Clint Mixon

Bad Ass

10 years ago

Hichem Hamane

Algiers .......... like the capital of Algeria !!!!!!

10 years ago

Siraaj Encore

Umm?!?!?!! Jamming!!! Go Frankie!!

10 years ago

The0nlyDylanZizzo

Thank Mr. Fanto Man

10 years ago

Timothy E.

I can't find any other note of these guys existing outside of the two singles on their band page. 

10 years ago

ca g

Nice find, Matador. Where the fuck did these guys come from?

10 years ago

SALU

Real sonic urgency. The best band you never heard of. Our friends #Algiers #matadorrecords 

10 years ago

Antoine von B

ballistic!

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