Bloc Party: C/D?

Little Thoughts EP, which contains everything they've released since the first EP (sans "Always New Depths" for some reason), will be out in Japan on 1 Dec and in the US on 25 Jan... haven't found anything for a UK/Europe date.

Silent Alarm LP will be out on Wichita in the UK and on V2 in Europe/Japan on 14 Feb and on Vice/Atlantic in the US on 20 Mar (vinyl on Dim Mak same day).

WFMU studio set here (begins approx. 5:20 into stream).

...and yeah, I agree it's too early to tell.

Where's the "Party"?

Madonna to thread.

i wish people in the press would stop comparing them to franz ferdinand

but much better! (and i love the first Adorable LP)

Opinion of album = !!!!!!!

Hahah -- a fellow writer friend down here was complaining about BP precisely because of a Blink-182 similarity. (He preferred the Futureheads, which I admit I've not yet heard.)

didn't need a brief glimpse of kele's few remaining good sensibilities

Shitting hell quoting Robyn S like that is just indefensible.

This sounds like the kind of record a band releases before they finally admit the game is up and piss off.

I order the lobster, and you, the Moët
The waitress thinks that we can't pay, no
What does she know? Our pockets are full-grown
And we've earned the right to fine dine

The rhyme of Moet with pay is worthy of Rakim in his prime.

The music got too shit for me to possibly carry on but I cannot imagine any record company agreeing to release that if it hadn't come from a band who have already sold however many million albums.

Yup, totally agree. This is quite comfortably the worst new album I've heard so far this year, actually... I know we're only a couple of months in, but still!

i always thought BP the band were better than kele on the whole. but these lyrics really make me want to listen to the new one.

New single played on 6music as we drove to work. As it finished Em said simply "That was shit. What happened to them?"

this might all explain is why kele looks so unhappy/pissed off in all their recent publicity shots.

He is also now absolutely MASSIVE, like he's been pumping steroids and sacks of satsumas straight into his muscles. I'm always slightly suspicious of people who bulk up like that.

he sounded like hes been having a bit of an ongoing personal/identity crisis in that NME interview, which might be related to his new beefiness.

i think different drugs is meant to be his unfinished symphony, the phrasing is very similar to shara nelson.

fortress is good actually. prob his best, most tender singing on this album from what ive heard so far (im not really listening to the lyrics, which might help). its a tiny bit like fka twigs' closer. is his solo stuff like this? i think i might like it more than the BP album if so.

the other guy from the original line up has gone kind beefy as well, he used to be a super-scrawny pencil neck indie kid

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3gDjVR8bTc/UPkLaq983RI/AAAAAAAAFu8/NfSF2KFBEjg/s400/2+Bloc+straight+cream.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/59763/a6d59e64.jpg

(he's the one on the far right in both pictures)

wait, second from the right in the first picture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcEsqSr0jG0

Oh ffs what even is this band anymore

A band that's completely over, yet they still keep on going...

Any thoughts on Kele's _Fatherland_? Has a real nice streak from tracks 6-10 (less 7). "Yemaya", track 6, has a Shack musical vibe that I love, but it's also very much the album's highpoint for me, though the track with Corinne Bailey Rae (# 8, "Versions of Us") is lovely.

there you go-go
looking like a snack
cute like bambi
meet me in the boom boom room

intimacy sounds great today

Their best

fuck, are you right????

no way!!! half is good-to-great but the other half is mediocre-to-'wtf were they thinking'

Could barely make it through one listen of this album. Such a huge fall off from Silent Alarm to Weekend in the City to this

possible that "talons," "better than heaven," and "ion square" (plus "letter to my son") are tricking me into thinking this but... those songs are sooooo good

yeah those tracks (and "trojan horse" and "signs") are all very good but still like, what the fuck is "mercury", what the fuck is "ares", why does "one month off" sound like a very weird remix of "banquet" and so on

Ares and Mercury <3

Setting Sun and Peek-a-Boo getting on very well in the late summer heat.

you get sadder
the smarter you get
and it's a bore

intimacy really became one of my favorite albums of all time in the last five months, lol

wild that you bumped this today! I was thinking about and listening to Bloc Party yesterday

i think i've restated a million times itt why post-silent alarm bloc party doesn't "work" for me on the same level as silent alarm only to develop special and personal relationships with all of those records*. even four, which has no cohesion whatsoever but the songs are still really good

i listened to intimacy probably two or three times in college and found it hard to get past the brash and dissonant opening (i also think i heard it before "talons" was added to the tracklist, so crucial to the album's functioning), but now i love those songs, especially "ares," which seems to be running off the fumes of the apocalyptic stakes from weekend in the city, exuding so much cultural exhaustion there's nothing to do but to retreat into the interpersonal and intimate, thus the rest of the record. they also do such a good job of staking out the sonic parameters of the record, recognizably bloc party but manipulated and fragmented by machines, just as machines mediate the relationships that form and dissolve over the course of the record — i'm not sure any of the lyrics support this suggestion but the overwhelming vibe of the record to me is "sneaking a glance at your partner's texts and finding out more than you bargained for"

*og lineup only, tho who can say, can't see it happening but maybe catch me in five years repping hymns lol