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Showing posts with label Bloc Party.. Show all posts
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Bloc Party. - A Weekend In The City

Unless someone specifically requests it, I will not be posting the new Bloc Party. album because I am in no way impressed by it. The track "Mercury" is painfully repetitive and honestly one of the worst things I've ever heard.

"A Weekend In The City", however, is a great album, finding Kele and Co.'s more commercial side, one more or less unseen on "Silent Alarm". Do not be misled, though. Some people would tell you that anything commercial is bad, I should know, I used to be one of them. Once I got over myself, I realized that not every band that is garnering critical acclaim and selling hundreds of thousands of records has sold out. Some of them lucked out. In any case, Bloc Party. is one band who has unbelievable amounts of talent, and who knows how to write incredibly well. Songs like "The Prayer" and "Sunday" prove that Bloc Party. can write catchy songs that are still true to the sound they initially created. It's called maturation.

I don't know, however, how you would label their latest release.

Tracklisting:
1. Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
2. Hunting For Witches
3. Waiting For The 7.18
4. The Prayer
5. Uniform
6. On
7. Where Is Home?
8. Kreuzberg
9. I Still Remember
10. Sunday
11. SRXTB

Bonus Tracks:
12. The Once And Future King
13. Secrets

Highlight Tracks: "The Prayer", "I Still Remember", "Sunday", "The Once And Future King"