New Bloc Party - "Trojan Horse"
Yesterday Bloc Party announced that you'd have to wait just three days to hear their forthcoming third album. If that is too long for you, and you are on the internet so it's fair to assume it is, you can hear a new single right now. As for sounds: The band promised that the new album would recall "fan favourites" like "Helicopter," "Banquet," and "So Here We Are," although on first pass "Trojan Horse"'s stomp and buzz-saw guitar hit a bit more like "The Prayer" than it does the Silent stuff. Have a listen at MySpace.
Intimacy is out digitally 8/21 worldwide. Physical units shall be released in the UK on 10/27 via Wichita, and 10/28 in the US via Atlantic.
Posted at 11:09 AM by amrit
Tags: Bloc Party
What's the big deal with this band?
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See them live, and then ask that question.
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I've seen them live three times and I think it's a valid question. Trojan Horse may persuade me to try again, Mercury may persuade me to stay home. Can't decide. It's like they're either awesome or terrible. It'd be easier if they were consistently mediocre.
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No band alive is more consistently mediocre than Bloc Party.
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Then you must have been lucky to have never heard of The Hold Steady nor Duffy.
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I love this, and Mercury has grown on me. I think this album could be in between Silent Alarm and Weekend in the City quality wise, so far.
Hoping for BEST EVER bloc party. love it all tho.
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I liked Weekend In The City just fine, and I'll like this too, hopefully, but I'm disappointed they kept going in the electronic direction. We could use another Silent Alarm, Bloc Party. Thanks. Also, come play near or in Vermont, USA. Thanks again.
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Wee, yums. I like everything Bloc Party does. Can't wait for the album and so glad it came out right before me seeing them live.
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Joy was found in Silent Alarm, but only boredom in "Weakend", Intimacy is at least...interesting, it does not suck, on the Pitchfork scale I would say 7.5, they at least attempt some different territory, even if they are not always successful, it is still better than the breathy drone of the second album, the stand-alone single from earlier in the year Flux should def be on Intimacy, it would have started the album out on the right note. Overall Silent Alarm is still amazing, the shouting anthems are missed, Blue Light is great, but that should not be the formula for every future song.
Anyway, this album:
Ares will make for a good remix ("First person singular!")(MSTRKRFT again please), Mercury is still not a very good song, Halo, One Month Off, and Trojan Horse are the stand-outs and feature the guitar that BP are oh so good at, Biko and Zepherus are yawners, Better Than Heaven and Signs are decent album tracks that could have used better placement on the album, and the closer Ion Square sounds like a techno remix of a Weekend b-side, no thank you.
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you guys are all fags.
download the album or buy it w/e
then stop complaining
and you will hear
how good it is.
plus dont say bloc party is blah
they are great live preformers.
god bless bloc party!
and its fans xD
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