Mdou Moctar have announced a new album, but it will sound fairly familiar to fans of the band’s 2024 release, Funeral for Justice. The new album, Tears of Injustice, is a re-recorded version of Funeral for Justice that was rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. Listen to the “Injustice Version” of “Imajighen” below.
Mdou Moctar tracked Tears of Injustice, with engineer Seth Manchester, at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn. “We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” the group’s bassist and producer, Mikey Coltun, remarked. “We’re always playing around with arrangements at shows. We wanted to prove that we could do it on a record, too. And there’s a whole other side of the band that comes out when we play a stripped-down set. It becomes something new.”
Tears of Injustice is out February 28 (via Matador). Revisit the interview “A Very Loud Afternoon at Guitar Center With Mdou Moctar” on the Pitch.
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Tears of Injustice:
01 Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)
02 Imouhar (Injustice Version)
03 Takoba (Injustice Version)
04 Sousoume Tamacheq (Injustice Version)
05 Imajighen (Injustice Version)
06 Tchinta (Injustice Version)
07 Oh France (Injustice Version)
08 Modern Slaves (Injustice Version)
