Algiers have debuted new track and video ‘We Can’t Be Found’, taken from the London/NYC four-piece’s highly anticipated third album, There Is No Year, out January 17 on Matador Records. The mesmerising visual for the sinuous, dub-inflected song, which builds to a soaring, cascading chorus, propelled by the powerhouse vocals of frontman Franklin James Fisher, was directed by Ian Cone. “I always feel the most successful music videos are the ones that are reflective and convey the mood of the song to the listener over everything else,” says guitarist Lee Tesche. “In this instance, we collaborated with the artist Lloyd Benjamin, trying to frame some of his sculpture work in a more abstracted way, referencing the urban dystopian cityscapes found in the German expressionist films of the 1930s. The result aspires to be somewhere in between the unsettling work of Darius Khondji and the set design of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Fritz Lang's Metropolis.”

‘We Can’t Be Found’ follows the release of ‘Void’, accompanied by a visceral live video shot in the band’s hometown of Atlanta, as well as the video for ‘Dispossession’, filmed in the Noisy le Grand suburbs of Paris. Kicking off their 2020 live run with a series of US instore performances the week of release, Algiers touch down in London on February 5 for a headline show at London’s Village Underground, alongside dates in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds, before continuing to European and North American legs.

There Is No Year was recorded in New York throughout 2019 by childhood friends and Atlanta natives Franklin James Fisher, Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche, as well as drummer Matt Tong (ex-Bloc Party), alongside producers Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Oren Ambarchi) and Ben Greenberg (Zs, Uniform, The Men). The album is titled after author and fellow Atlanta native Blake Butler’s novel of the same name, a major inspiration to the band over the course of the album’s making.

There Is No Year encompasses future-minded post-punk R&B from the trapped heart of ATL, where they began; to industrial soundscapes à la 4AD-era Scott Walker or Iggy & Bowie’s Berlin period; to something like the synthetic son of Marvin Gaye and Fever Ray. The whip-tight rhythm section of multi-instrumentalist Ryan Mahan and Matt Tong moves back and forth from infectious menace to sci-fi soundtrack to big band fever dream. Mahan’s beat programming and synth constructions fill out the fibrous threshold, while Tesche’s sound-sleeves and aural-layering shapeshift into a richly polished means of exploration, revealing more and more the deeper you delve.”

FEBRUARY UK HEADLINE TOUR:

3.2 Brighton – The Haunt

5.2 London – Village Underground

6.2 Manchester – YES

7.2 Glasgow – Stereo

10.2 Leeds – Brudenell

Nada Surf share their new single ‘So Much Love’, which is taken from ninth studio recording and first in almost four years. Their new LP, Never Not Together, is due Feb 7 via City Slang.

Speaking about ‘So Much Love’, Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws said "It's a song that celebrates good will between people. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that it's there. But it's all around us. Small things add up. A little tolerance and acceptance can be built on. We're good at love and being kind. it comes naturally to us, but so do other things. You just have to keep looking for the right way to lean, it's worth everything.”

Never Not Together was heralded last November by the first single, ‘Something I Should Do’. ‘Looking For You’ followed in December, joined by a unique animated video filmed by the members of Nada Surf.

Never Not Together sees Nada Surf – Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, and their longtime friend and collaborator, Louie Lino – continuing to pursue their humanistic vision of the world through hooky, catchy rock songs with sharply drawn, yet tenderly felt, lyrics. Recorded earlier this year at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, the wide-ranging collection revels in the group’s ability to evoke and reflect grand and intricately wrought emotions, whether through sweeping guitar solos or hushed-whisper vocals. “We’re all together, and that’s just the way it is, and the way it always will be,” says Caws. “That’s the sacred truth of it.”

See Nada Surf live:

25.02. UK Cambridge - Junction 22

12.03. UK London - Electric Ballroom

13.03. UK Manchester - Academy 3

14.03. IRL Dublin - Button Factory

15.03. UK Glasgow - St-Lukes