New Bloc Party Video - "Flux"
Folks were mixed on Kele's "Flux" vocordered vocals, but everything is just a bit sweeter when it's served up with dancing junk monsters, robots, and lovey illuminated god-like things frolicking, big-battling and tank-crashing throughout a cardboard city.
Watch it here. Some kinda post-punk apocalypse? As you may have noticed, this current version's only available in clunky and crashy Windows Media -- perhaps it's an anti-technology morality tale. Pretty clever, dudes.
UPDATE: For those without Windows Media, we've got GooTube embed...
Posted at 2:15 PM in Video
Tags: Bloc Party
someone please upload it to youtube or something! i'm under ubuntu. damn you windows media =)
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While I was one of the many who loved Silent Alarm and one of the few who loved A Weekend In the City (and its surprisingly spectacular B-sides), I'm just not feeling this new direction "Flux" is taking the band in. The whole Nu-Rave aesthetic is just too inauthentic, and you guys hit the mark with the Cher comparison; now that's all I hear when I listen to that song.
Am I the only one who's seeing the (Dance/Art Punk) Radiohead direction this band is going in? Bloc Party EP - Pablo Honey [Have their massive faults, have notable singles that launch their careers, ultimately a footnote in their history], Silent Alarm - The Bends [Very emotional, representative of the times and the people that lived in them, critically acclaimed], A Weekend in the City - OK Computer [The blatantly similar themes of paranoia, mild politics, and self reflection. This is where the two bands begin to differ though, particularly in the media/critic reception], and now the incoming Flux EP - Airbag/How am I Driving? [Signaling a future layered with Electronica experimentation?]
Again, Bloc Party is probably one of my favorite bands and definitely underrated by many, but "Flux" does not raise my hopes of a future that features a Kid A styled LP.
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I love it.
And Kid A is the best thing Radiohead ever did so if Bloc's next is their Kid A, then rock on.
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This single sounds like the best thing Bloc Party has ever done.
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I've just uploaded the video to YouTube!
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=exoHsNeO4Bw
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I really think that the verses are great, but the chorus is a stinker. I wish they could learn to write better songs. SA are their best written songs to date. Musically, it does sort of sound like the killers. Video is cool though.
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I re-uploaded the “Flux” official video to YouTube! ('cause the previously was crashing at the end!)
Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsIMTwVaGyw
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man, don't get me wrong i love bloc party but this, its just really awful.
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