King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Work This Time (Live in Brussel 2019)

[Verse 1]
Black holes emit tones 50 staffs below c
Floating through space would you think about me?
With your brain squeezed to mush by the force pressing down
I'd still drive by your house, I'd still move to your town

[Chorus]
Cause you slay me, you fool
Obey me, you fool
I'll submit to your rule
And I'll drown in your pool

[Verse 2]
There's a place far away where a cave sits alone
On the roof is a bat, on the floor is a stone
On the wall is a drawing, I once made of you
Where your hair is on fire and your eyes on fire too

[Chorus]
You slay me, you fool
Obey me, you fool
Enroll in my school
Please tell me that I'm cool

[Verse 3]
In my top dresser drawer is a tiny wooden box
All its hinges are gone and there's rust in the locks
If you opened it up, darling here's what you'd find
All our thoughts, dreams, and truths tangled up and entwined

[Bridge]
I'm not bitter at all
I'm not lonely you see
All I want is your love
All I give is this plea

[Final Chorus]
You slay me, you fool
Obey me, you fool
Enroll in my school
Please tell me that I'm cool
Cause you slay me, you fool
Obey me, you fool
All I want is your love
All I want is your love


You Slay Me (feat Nostalgia Boy)

The Underside of Power

As the globalised economy churns in swells ‘neath our feet, suturing us together and tearing us apart, heads angled hellward, we bellow, Algiers!

Algiers is the danse macabre between here and nowhere, movement and stasis, order under hell, and chaos under heaven. The situation is excellent.

Algiers is a band of musicians born in Atlanta, Georgia, the rotten hub of the Ol’ American South, where W.E.B Dubois once saw a riot goin’ on, and where the hell and highwater swirls ‘round to the knees.

Holed up in our perches in London, New York and a small town in France, plague up to our necks, we conjure the dead sound to life.

The click clack of the keyboard brings us to worship. The shrieks of slaves and rebels pummeling through.

Our tongues, twisted in the service of Paul Robeson, Lee Moses, Selda Bağcan, et al, slur a call in the darkness.

Algiers is the experimental gospel noise soul pulp response, slurping Francophilia - Gainsbourg and Dutronc, Saint Just and Fanon, Badiou and Baurdillard - Black Power - Nina Simone, Public Enemy, James Baldwin, Fred Hampton, DJ Premier, and Fela Kuti – and Southern Gothic - William Faulkner, Nick Cave and Flannery O’Connor - into a stew thicker than bourguignon in the Algierian sun.

Algiers is Franklin James Fisher (b. North Carolina, l. NYC) / vocals, guitar, keys, programming, and percussion; Ryan Mahan (b. Georgia, l. London) / vocals, bass and percussion; and Lee Tesche (b. Georgia, l. London) / guitar, vocals, programming, and percussion.

The Underside of Power

Algiers

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