Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
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Album Review
Release date: 02 June 2008
Bloc Party : Silent Alarm
Varied in tone and stylistically uncategorisable, one thing is clear about Bloc Party’s debut album: it’s bloody brilliant...
It’s the most cringeworthy thing a new band can do and Bloc Party are the latest band to be guilty of it. “We’re unpigeonholeable!” they’ve squealed in recent interviews. Sheesh, fellas, frankly you’re not being helpful. I’ve got more than 1,000 words to write and I fully intend on finding you a cosy little pigeonhole to squeeze into – sit back, relax, this won’t hurt a...
- Sep 12, 2005
Tracklisting click track to read more
- Like Eating Glass
- Helicopter
- Positive Tension
- Banquet
- Blue Light
- She's Hearing Voices
- This Modern Love
- The Pioneers
- Price Of Gasoline
- So Here We Are
- Luno
- Plans
- Compliments
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Bloc Party News
Bloc Party to go on hiatus after summer festival dates
Band will bow out for the time being with a headline set at Latitude on July 19
Bloc Party's Kele Okereke: 'I envied the Kaiser Chiefs'
But Okereke says his envy inspired him to write the band's 2005 hit 'Two More Years'
Bloc Party to release new material this summer
Russell Lissack reveals band have recorded 6 new songs and could release EP
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm: Wikipedia Album Entry
BLOC PARTY
Silent Alarm
(Vice)
This is the next album everyone is going to be listening to by the next band everyone will be talking about, and it’s obvious from the bad ass opening of the first track, “Like Eating Glass.” This London four-piece produce complicated, electronic orchestrations, blended seamlessly with tight-knit indie-rock drenched in hooks and crafted by truly deft musicians. Each song is so densely layered, the three-hundredth listen sounds as fresh as the first. Singer Kele Okereke’s voice jumps left and right, speaking and shouting in bursts between electronic lifts rising to a plateau of pretty-boy singing before guitar-god rock breaks things back down again. The skill this band employs could plant suspicions that they’re a popular, more experienced band, hiding their identities to release a completely different album than they could otherwise, but, in fact, these newcomers aren’t widely known superstars — yet.
Grade: A
REVIEW BY: MICHAEL DELGADO
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Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Lyrics
Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass Lyrics
It's so cold in this house
Open mouth swallowing us
The children staying home from school
Will not stop crying
Bloc Party - Plans Lyrics
Wake up dreamer
It's happening without you
Cut your hair and shave your beard
You squandered your chances
Bloc Party - Luno Lyrics
And you're tired of your Mum
And you're tired of your Dad
Got you jumping through hoops
Got you shaving your legs
Bloc Party - So Here We Are Lyrics
I caught a glimpse
But its been forgotten
So here we are again
Bloc Party - Little Thoughts Lyrics
Been thinking little thoughts
Keep on walking trying to stand up
Pay attention to the details
We go slowly, slowly down
Bloc Party - Price Of Gas Lyrics
I've been driving a mid sized car
I never hurt anyone
Is that a fact? Is that a fact?
Is that a fact? Is that a fact?
Bloc Party - Pioneers Lyrics
If it can be broke then it can be fixed
If it can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control, it's all under control
It's all under control, it's all under control
Bloc Party - This Modern Love Lyrics
To be lost in the forest, to be cut adrift
You've been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest, to be cut adrift
Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices Lyrics
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Bloc Party - Blue Light Lyrics
You'll find it hiding in shadows
You'll find it hiding in cupboards
It will walk you home safe every night
It will help you remember
Bloc Party - Banquet Lyrics
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I can give you life, I can take it away
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I'm working it out, I'm working
Bloc Party - Positive Tension Lyrics
He said, "You're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch"
He said, "You're just as boring as everyone else
Bloc Party - Compliments Lyrics
We sit and we sigh and nothing gets done
So right, so clued up, we just get old
And all the while been torn asunder
Nicotine and bacteria
