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    AL-QASAR

    Aug 18, 2022 4 minutes
    INTERVIEW: STEPHEN DALTON

    Who Are We? GLITTERBEAT

    7/10

    Paris-based psych-rockers gather a punky outlaw army from the Middle East to the West Coast. By Stephen Dalton

    ENLISTING radical US veterans Lee Ranaldo and Jello Biafra, alongside the rising generation of rebel poets, political exiles and roots-rock revolutionaries forged during the Arab Spring, polyglot Parisians Al-Qasar whip up a globalised psychrock storm on this gutsy debut. The band bill their self-styled “Arabian Fuzz” sound as an authentic snapshot of multicultural Paris in 2022: this loosely translates as an agreeably grimy mongrelised mixtape of punk, grunge and garage-rock signifiers interwoven with gnawa, rai and desert blues influences, all

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