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Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
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During July, Bloc Party recorded two new tracks (titles were given of "Hero" and "Two More Years") with Silent Alarm producer Paul Epworth. The latter track was released on October 3 to coincide with their October 2005 UK tour. The songs were released as an EP titled Two More Years, accompanied with a re-release of Silent Alarm, which included "Two More Years" itself along with former single "Little Thoughts". The single format of "Two More Years" contained a remix of "Banquet" done by The Streets, for which a video was ... recorded.
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Formed in South London in 2000, Bloc Party have swiftly become one of the UK’s finest musical acts. Their 2005 critically acclaimed debut artist album "Silent Alarm" was accompanied by a series of stunning live shows that further underlined their status as ridiculously hot property.
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Bloc Party was formed in 2002, and went through several temporary band names before settling on their current moniker in 2003. They met and began to play together in England, and the UK is the area where they have enjoyed their highest level of success. The band got their break when vocalist/guitarist Kele Okereke went to a Franz Ferdinand concert and slipped a demo tape into the hands of their lead singer and a radio DJ. The tape was played on the radio, and the buzz generated led to the band's first release, Silent Alarm, in 2005. The album climbed to number 3 on the UK charts, and the band has been widely known ever since.
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Bloc Party needed to live up to looming goals set by their fans with their sophomore release. Though instantly memorable at its outset, the passive nature of its transition and waning moments play in a subtler, more forgettable way. Though still impressive, these tracks likely serve less to create new fans than to sustain existing ones. A Weekend in the City marks less a turning point for Bloc Party from the oft raucous and continually infectious beats of Silent Alarm than a gradual bend to a low-key attitude. And luckily for these young men, it easily proves good enough to meet the outstanding expectations of their outrageously demanding fans.
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Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, from going out on a Friday night to the long...[ read more ]
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Bloc Party had been away on tour for almost two years. It had been a long time and a long way, but it was all great stuff. One million people had bought the band's debut album Silent Alarm. British music weekly NME made it their Album Of The Year in 2005. It was in the UK album charts for a thumping 69 weeks. It wasn't just the London-based four-piece's home country that fell hard for their agit-jitter guitar pop. Bloc Party - Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes, Matt Tong - had received similar plaudits across Europe, and in Japan.
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