Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
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Album Review
Release date: 19 November 2007
Bloc Party: A Weekend In The City
London takes a pounding, but Kele and co find emotion at the capital’s heart
London. Dog shit on pavements. Tube train commuters packed tighter than battery hens. The good liberal’s beggar conundrum: do you walk on past, guilt sirens blaring, or drop another quid into the Special Brew fund? For some bands, London is a playground, a pitch for a cheeky ‘Parklife’ kick-around – or portal to an Arcadia of all-night parties and satisfying casual sex. For others,...
- Feb 9, 2007
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- Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
- Hunting For Witches
- Waiting For The 7.18
- The Prayer
- Uniform
- On
- Where Is Home?
- Kreuzberg
- I Still Remember
- Flux
- Sunday
- SRXT
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Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City: Wikipedia Album Entry
Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn't take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigerian-born singer Kele Okereke, the group's 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, soared as much on crystal ambition as it did on ridiculously danceable pop melodies. This follow-up is darker, more cluttered, and harder to digest. That doesn't make it less striking. Exploring themes of racism, terrorism, sexuality, addiction, and death--the usual fodder for a cosmopolitan three-day bender--Weekend in the City is an album that plays to Bloc Party's strengths: tempo-shifting rhythms, inventive art-rock arrangements, and lyrics that twist and turn on a whim. "The Prayer" and "Uniform" are particular standouts, capturing moments when Okereke lets self-importance fade and majestic beats take charge. --Aidin Vaziri
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