Well, firstly I m pissed off, because I was blazing and now I m smoking. How does that shit happen?
Last night, I went to a cool little shin dig Bloc party album launch.
Was pretty fun. There was a Dave Grohl lookalike there. The Cricketers Arms is a great little pub.
Just one of those dirty, chilled out, unpretentious places. My kind of hole.
The B-sides and remixes weren t bad.
I suggest you listen to some of this shizz.
So, I m sure it s old news that the new Bloc Party album leaked online some time ago, but I really didn t get around to listening to it until this past weekend my favorite song so far is On, which seems to be about the power of cocaine, how it makes you a star (in your own mind), brings people together, loosens your inhibitions, and allows you to be a social butterfly rather than a wallflower. I can relate to this song
Well, not the drugs part per se (I was always a bit of a sissy in my experimental days and was scared of cocaine, and now I m too old and would look like an utter jackass anyway).
But having that feeling of wishing I could be comfortable enough with myself to be the life of the party, instead of watching it all go down from the sidelines this I can relate to.
Added to the lyrics is one of my all-time favorite bass lines, which Bloc Party lovingly adopts the one from White LInes (Don t Do It) by Grandmaster Flash. One of the things I love most about Bloc Party is how they straddle the past and the present, and this track is a lovely example.
Even though I admit I have listened to A Weekend in the City under unsavory circumstances, I can t wait to go out and properly buy this album.
I have resisted all these it bands over the past couple of years, choosing instead to retreat deeper into the catalogue of stuff I already have at home. (God bless iTunes for bringing back those forgotten records of yesteryear!
).
But today I jumped on a friend s advance copy of the new Bloc Party record, and it sounds so amazing and fresh. So my blanket rule against it bands is a bad one.
If anyone else out there has heard this record, is this in the same vein as their first record? Better? Should I hit the Silent Alarm too?
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