![]() Media buzz around Bloc Party’s 2004 EPs (May’s self-titled debut and December’s Little Thoughts) was glowing but dominated by references to Gang of Four (a group the band says they didn’t hear until after Silent Alarm) and the post-punk revival – a movement Bloc Party didn’t want to be lumped in with, and which frontman Kele Okereke didn’t identify. Now, on the eve of Bloc Party returning to Australia next month to perform Silent Alarm in full, Kele joins us for an inside look back at what they’ve achieved, and what happens next. The ups and downs of their career have been defined by experimenting in order to reach new audiences and creative territory, their ever-changing sound unified by frontman Kele Okereke. Earnest, emotional, frenetic – it helped shape the tone for a raft of guitar-driven groups that came in its wake, only for Bloc Party to jettison and expand from a sound they helped popularise.įrom the prolific late ‘00s period that produced their next two albums, A Weekend In The City and Intimacy, to the line-up changes that resulted in 2016’s more subdued Hymns, they’ve incorporated more ambitious elements and electronic sounds in order to push forward. Their career bolted out of the gate with their era-defining 2005 debut album Silent Alarm. Bloc Party are one of Britain’s most enduring but curious indie rock successes.
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