― DJMencap0))), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link
― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago) link
― DJMencap0)), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
seem to be pretentious assholes too, "Suffice to say there would be no band without the efforts of guitar bands formed in British and American towns in the 70s, 80s and 90s, aswell as visionary writers and artists of various kinds whose work has informed the world and culture itself as it stands. The precise names are as good as any you can come up with, in fact probably much, much better."
― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
Gordon Moakes - D.O.B 22.06.76 - Instrument: Bass and voice - Informed by "Anne Sexton, JG Ballard, Joy Division, melodic hardcore, Kubrick, the Gang Of Four, British post-punk, Sonic Youth"
― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
I have no idea what cd you might be listening to, but it certainly doesn't sound like Bloc Party.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 10 September 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Saturday, 2 October 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Just slsked a couple of live performances of songs yet to be officially released (This Modern Love, Luno). I can barely contain myself waiting for the full-length.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 2 October 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Little Thoughts EP, which contains everything they've released since the first EP (sans "Always New Depths" for some reason), will be out in Japan on 1 Dec and in the US on 25 Jan... haven't found anything for a UK/Europe date.
Silent Alarm LP will be out on Wichita in the UK and on V2 in Europe/Japan on 14 Feb and on Vice/Atlantic in the US on 20 Mar (vinyl on Dim Mak same day).
WFMU studio set here (begins approx. 5:20 into stream).
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
...and yeah, I agree it's too early to tell.
― ryebot (ryebot), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― weird monster, Monday, 15 November 2004 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Where's the "Party"?
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Madonna to thread.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Broken Hipster (Broken Hipster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― elwisty, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― owen reading, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― elwisty, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― owen reading, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
i wish people in the press would stop comparing them to franz ferdinand
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Monday, 14 February 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
but much better! (and i love the first Adorable LP)
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 14 February 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Opinion of album = !!!!!!!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm on track three and it's like this is supposed to be some sort of Jamie Woon-James Blake coffee table dubsoul thing, but he doesn't have voice of the former and the even rudimentary production skills of the latter.
Fourth track is the sort of clumpy midpaced twangy rocker that you expect from bands with no ideas left.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
Every day is a repeatLike a carrier bag stuck in a treeI used to find my answersIn the gospels of St. JohnBut now I find them at the bottomOf this shot glass
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
"so real" is ok
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
"the good news" is like who invited this band to become black rebel motorcycle club
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
The music to Fortress is even worse than the lyrics, unsurprising limp dick James Blake sex-ballad.
Also Kele Okerere is a man in his mid-30s using 'sex' as a verb.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
wow i could be listening to the entire years & years album instead of "fortress"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
Different Drugs is actually... pretty good, in that I've not found myself immediately compelled to turn it off. Would be way better with Katy or Jessie singing it obviously, and sometimes you really do need to ditch the drummer. I like the bit where he sings "do you still think of me fondly?" like he's addressing some maiden aunt he never really sees.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
"different drugs" IS good. would've fit on a weekend in the city
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
Into The Earth reminds me of something, wacky 1999-ish West Coast types in Hawaiian shirts/too baggy trousers/stupid thick ties. Or maybe just the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
jeez it's kinda stunning how much "different drugs" towers over everything else i've heard on this record
i think i'd have preferred it if this record were entirely bad tbh
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
didn't need a brief glimpse of kele's few remaining good sensibilities
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
Shitting hell quoting Robyn S like that is just indefensible.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
This sounds like the kind of record a band releases before they finally admit the game is up and piss off.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link
I order the lobster, and you, the MoëtThe waitress thinks that we can't pay, noWhat does she know? Our pockets are full-grownAnd we've earned the right to fine dine
The rhyme of Moet with pay is worthy of Rakim in his prime.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
The music got too shit for me to possibly carry on but I cannot imagine any record company agreeing to release that if it hadn't come from a band who have already sold however many million albums.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
Yup, totally agree. This is quite comfortably the worst new album I've heard so far this year, actually... I know we're only a couple of months in, but still!
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:20 (eight years ago) link
i always thought BP the band were better than kele on the whole. but these lyrics really make me want to listen to the new one.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 10:27 (eight years ago) link
New single played on 6music as we drove to work. As it finished Em said simply "That was shit. What happened to them?"
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 10:38 (eight years ago) link
this might all explain is why kele looks so unhappy/pissed off in all their recent publicity shots.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
He is also now absolutely MASSIVE, like he's been pumping steroids and sacks of satsumas straight into his muscles. I'm always slightly suspicious of people who bulk up like that.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 11:05 (eight years ago) link
he sounded like hes been having a bit of an ongoing personal/identity crisis in that NME interview, which might be related to his new beefiness.
i think different drugs is meant to be his unfinished symphony, the phrasing is very similar to shara nelson.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 11:16 (eight years ago) link
fortress is good actually. prob his best, most tender singing on this album from what ive heard so far (im not really listening to the lyrics, which might help). its a tiny bit like fka twigs' closer. is his solo stuff like this? i think i might like it more than the BP album if so.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link
the other guy from the original line up has gone kind beefy as well, he used to be a super-scrawny pencil neck indie kid
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3gDjVR8bTc/UPkLaq983RI/AAAAAAAAFu8/NfSF2KFBEjg/s400/2+Bloc+straight+cream.jpg
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/59763/a6d59e64.jpg
(he's the one on the far right in both pictures)
― soref, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
wait, second from the right in the first picture
― soref, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcEsqSr0jG0
Oh ffs what even is this band anymore
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:18 (seven years ago) link
A band that's completely over, yet they still keep on going...
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Any thoughts on Kele's _Fatherland_? Has a real nice streak from tracks 6-10 (less 7). "Yemaya", track 6, has a Shack musical vibe that I love, but it's also very much the album's highpoint for me, though the track with Corinne Bailey Rae (# 8, "Versions of Us") is lovely.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
there you go-golooking like a snackcute like bambimeet me in the boom boom room
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
intimacy sounds great today
― ivy., Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
Their best
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
fuck, are you right????
― ivy., Sunday, 10 September 2023 05:14 (one year ago) link
no way!!! half is good-to-great but the other half is mediocre-to-'wtf were they thinking'
― ufo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 07:46 (one year ago) link
Could barely make it through one listen of this album. Such a huge fall off from Silent Alarm to Weekend in the City to this
― Vinnie, Sunday, 10 September 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
possible that "talons," "better than heaven," and "ion square" (plus "letter to my son") are tricking me into thinking this but... those songs are sooooo good
― ivy., Sunday, 10 September 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
yeah those tracks (and "trojan horse" and "signs") are all very good but still like, what the fuck is "mercury", what the fuck is "ares", why does "one month off" sound like a very weird remix of "banquet" and so on
― ufo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
Ares and Mercury <3
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
Setting Sun and Peek-a-Boo getting on very well in the late summer heat.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
you get sadderthe smarter you getand it's a bore
― ivy., Monday, 12 February 2024 05:04 (seven months ago) link
intimacy really became one of my favorite albums of all time in the last five months, lol
― ivy., Monday, 12 February 2024 05:06 (seven months ago) link
wild that you bumped this today! I was thinking about and listening to Bloc Party yesterday
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:32 (seven months ago) link
i think i've restated a million times itt why post-silent alarm bloc party doesn't "work" for me on the same level as silent alarm only to develop special and personal relationships with all of those records*. even four, which has no cohesion whatsoever but the songs are still really good
i listened to intimacy probably two or three times in college and found it hard to get past the brash and dissonant opening (i also think i heard it before "talons" was added to the tracklist, so crucial to the album's functioning), but now i love those songs, especially "ares," which seems to be running off the fumes of the apocalyptic stakes from weekend in the city, exuding so much cultural exhaustion there's nothing to do but to retreat into the interpersonal and intimate, thus the rest of the record. they also do such a good job of staking out the sonic parameters of the record, recognizably bloc party but manipulated and fragmented by machines, just as machines mediate the relationships that form and dissolve over the course of the record — i'm not sure any of the lyrics support this suggestion but the overwhelming vibe of the record to me is "sneaking a glance at your partner's texts and finding out more than you bargained for"
*og lineup only, tho who can say, can't see it happening but maybe catch me in five years repping hymns lol
― ivy., Monday, 12 February 2024 16:05 (seven months ago) link