On the 31st of October last year, Bloc Party was publicly on hiatus. This isn’t really the greatest of signs. Bands who go on hiatus usually will do this after maybe their second album, or they’re seventh and, if so to comeback, usually don’t come back until a very long time and not every band can come back successfully. For Bloc Party fans, this must come as a little bit of a shock, but it’s actually been more frustrating than it would seem. For the most part, the band was doing well having released their, third album Intimacy, which has probably been they’re most shakiest and risky album yet, although it’s still Bloc Party where it counts. Afterwards came the release of “One More chance”, a very solid single that had a very nice build. Then all of a sudden, the “h-word” came up and they announced that they would be inactive indefinitely. For the most part, I’ve been missing more of their alternating guitar, and their fast paced bass lines, and their intense high speed drumming, along with their crazy effects and even their exploration into the electronic world.
Bloc Party is one of those band that can afford to take risks because their albums stick to their basic elements, even if a couple songs here and there lack the punch, like their first Intimacy single “Mercury”. Russel Lissack, lead guitar and currently working with another project right now was interviewed by NME magazine about the situation and was quoted saying that they would probably start working again later this year and that there was a lot of material left undone that needed to be finished. We’ll see what happens. But in the meantime I can’t get over “Kele”. Not Kele Okereke, lead singer of the popular British indie rock band, Bloc Party, but Kele the British electronic pop star. It’s been a very weird experience following this guy. If you’ve listen to the changes in the past three bloc party albums, it all makes a lot of sense really. It’s like the continuation of the electronic sounds we heard in “Flux” and “Ares”, and I hate saying this, but it doesn’t really deliver. I haven’t had time to check out the others solo projects yet, but Kele needs his band badly and he needs to be behind a guitar. When listening to his solo album, “The Boxer”, it feels as if there is a void that needs to be filled. A lot of lazer sounds and synth pulses, but its hard to pull out life from it. Hopefully this will all get fixed.
Bloc Party is one of those band that can afford to take risks because their albums stick to their basic elements, even if a couple songs here and there lack the punch, like their first Intimacy single “Mercury”. Russel Lissack, lead guitar and currently working with another project right now was interviewed by NME magazine about the situation and was quoted saying that they would probably start working again later this year and that there was a lot of material left undone that needed to be finished. We’ll see what happens. But in the meantime I can’t get over “Kele”. Not Kele Okereke, lead singer of the popular British indie rock band, Bloc Party, but Kele the British electronic pop star. It’s been a very weird experience following this guy. If you’ve listen to the changes in the past three bloc party albums, it all makes a lot of sense really. It’s like the continuation of the electronic sounds we heard in “Flux” and “Ares”, and I hate saying this, but it doesn’t really deliver. I haven’t had time to check out the others solo projects yet, but Kele needs his band badly and he needs to be behind a guitar. When listening to his solo album, “The Boxer”, it feels as if there is a void that needs to be filled. A lot of lazer sounds and synth pulses, but its hard to pull out life from it. Hopefully this will all get fixed.
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