Bloc Party Another Weekend In The City Download
• • • • • Kele Okereke and his bandmates in are truly cognizant of the times. Bloc Party addressed the realism of the internet community by venturing into territory only few commercially successful rock bands preceding them have done: they released the album as a free digital download with a pre-order of the physical album upon release. Advocates of the recording industry call this foolish, but it shows that the band are willing to accept the reality of the digital age, and I can only applaud them just as I did Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Girl Talk before them. The difference was that those artists released albums that generated excitement for me.
I couldn’t stand Bloc Party’s 2007 release, A Weekend in the City. And it pained me to say, because their debut album, Silent Alarm, was one of my favorite albums for a good part of a year. Bloc Party quickly jumped into my small group of favorite bands following the very first time I listened to it. I was excited to hear this catchy, yet inspired new band from Britain, pulling all of these elements from New Wave to post-punk into their own concoction of stellar ear-candy. But they lost all of that with the second album. I’m a fan of personal lyrics, but these were just annoyingly introspective. I could only make it through two listens of the album, and placed it in one of the back pages of my album book.
Mar 5, 2016 - Bloc Party songs and artwork that haven't seen enough daylight. Is included in the fan-made b-sides compilation Another Weekend In The City. Sample was available to download from the old official Bloc Party website.
They literally lost all of their ability to hook, which is unfortunate because the band is capable; “Banquet” and “This Modern Love” off of –you guessed it– Silent Alarm, is Bloc Party at their absolute best. There are no tracks on the second effort which compare, quite simply. So the only excitement I could muster up upon hearing that Bloc Party were ready to unleash their third album came from a foregone conclusion I was hoping would not come true– would they follow their regressive path to mediocrity, or would they wake up a little bit and rekindle the brilliance shown on Silent Alarm? The end result wasn’t even disappointment. I just simply don’t care.
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The album isn’t horrible. It picks up in the second half with “Trojan Horse”, which channels some of the sounds of yesteryear. The opening of the song is engaging and Kele’s voice connects to the music quite flawlessly. But this first taste of success follows two tracks of overtly layered electronic synth and robotic vocals which, I predict, will be ineffective live – the straightforward rock anthem likely hit airwaves pretty soon, and the sandwiched, requisite slow song that’s become customary for a Bloc Party release. The first track, “Ares”, has an interesting sound, but the lyrics are simply difficult to appreciate and the song lacks any sort of consistency; there’s a falsetto bridge right in the middle which completely soaks all of the momentum and energy out of it. “Mercury” is just awful. It feels like a rip of all the 80’s synth-pop bands I’m trying to forget, and I simply do not understand how they expect to recreate the vocals live.