On May 21, 2021 Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long-awaited new album by Mdou Moctar.

On Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and rock music by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, womens rights inequality, and Western Africas exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.