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

By 12 Ètoiles. All rights reserved.

Lyrics :

Sensations of Pain

[Verse]
Shadows crawl where the daylight fades
Broken glass in the mess we've made
Every step feels like a razor's blade

[Chorus]
Sensations of pain they whisper and scream
Cut through the silence like a fractured dream
Oh they linger they linger they never leave

[Verse 2]
The mirror laughs but it won't explain
A heart too tired to fight the chain
Falling slow in a spiral of rain

[Prechorus]
Can you feel it twisting tight
Can you see the blackened light

[Chorus]
Sensations of pain they whisper and scream
Cut through the silence like a fractured dream
Oh they linger they linger they never leave

[Bridge]
Every scar a story untold
Every breath a promise grown cold
The weight it drags but we still hold.


New Wave [vocals] - Sensations of Pain

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.