| Bloc Party: A Weekend in The City |
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Contributed By: Josh DaNewYork
Created On: Friday, 09 February 2007 Hits: 82  A Weekend in The City And a world that reduces the life's wonderful possibilities to a grey routine. "East London is a vampire," sings Kele Okereke on the opening "Song For Clay (Disappear Here)", "it sucks the life right out of me." This, unmistakably, is Kele's album. Whereas the group's Also notable is a move towards more synthetic, electronic textures, thanks in part to the presence of producer Jacknife Lee. If before, Bloc Party sometimes sounded like they were trying to be machine-like, now they actually do, drums arranged in dense loops, guitars gasping robotic feedback. All in all, it's a less gripping album than Silent Alarm - but it's definitely a growth, and in the long run, it may prove easier to love.A low-quality rip of the album was leaked in its entirety in November 2006, three months before release. Faculty from V2 Records have been trying to delete the leaked files from P2P and torrent networks while keeping the leak unknown to the public. A high-quality rip of the album became available through various torrent networks on January 12, 2007. This album deals much more with normal day working life than was addressed on Silent Alarm, drawing themes from the 7 July 2005 London bombings, immigration, drug abuse, Black British lifestyle, homosexuality, and criticism of youth subculture. The album has been mostly met with mixed reviews by web-critics and fans alike, with the success of Silent Alarm setting high expectations for the next album. The first UK single is "The Prayer", due for release on January 29, 2007. The first single in the US is "I Still Remember." Although the leaked version is said to be the entire version, rumours suggest that two additional numbers will be added on the final version, to prevent a decrease of sales.[citation needed] However, a promo copy that was leaked on January 11, 2007 does not contain any additional numbers. Two songs that have been played live but did not make it onto the album are "For England" (Formerly "Blue Moon") and "We Were Lovers" (Formerly "Into The Blue" and "Cells Shaped Like Stars"). There is also a never-before-heard track proclaimed to be on the single for "The Prayer," called "Version 2.0." "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" was originally "Merge On The Freeway" (and is inspired by the novel Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis), "The Prayer" was originally "A Prayer To The Lord", "On" was originally "Wet," "Where Is Home?" was originally "Machine" and "Perfect Teens", and "I Still Remember" was originally "It Started In An Afternoon." {mos_ri} Share this article to:        |
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