Bloc Party materialised with a platinum selling, ‘NME album
of the year’ tagged debut, Silent Alarm, in 2005, following it up with, A
Weekend in the City, which reached number two in the charts, but then they
stopped being Bloc Party for a while, releasing the electro-heavy, Intimacy,
then they went away altogether.
The Bloc Party boys made a smart move in hiring self-styled
“analog purist”, Alex Newport, as their producer, whose past collaborations
include indie-emo royalty, Death Cab for Cutie and newly-crowned Brit-folk
king, Frank Turner.
Newport seems to have reminded the London foursome how to
create the heady, ethereal arrangements we fell in love with on their
mainstream chart assaulting singles Banquet and So Here We Are.
We’ll forgive them their self-indulgent solo projects and
nearly three year hiatus, if that’s what it took to come back with what the
fans wanted all along-Silent Alarm 2.0
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