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Artist: Bloc Party
Genre: Rock
Latest Album: Silent Alarm
Background:
Bloc Party is a British indie rock band been around in various guises since 2002, with names like The Angel Range, Diet and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. There was a theory that the name is a play on block party, a name for an informal neighborhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. Okereke and Lissack met each other through mutual friends at the Reading Festival, and discovered that they had musical tastes as well as friends in common. Tong and Moakes soon joined their collaboration, and under the name Union, the quartet issued a demo in early 2003; later that year, they switched their name to Bloc Party.
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About Bloc Party
In November 2003, they had their track 'The Marshals Are Dead' featured on a compilation CD called 'The New Cross' released by Angular Recording Corporation. Okereke sent a copy of the demo to Franz Ferdinand, who invited them to play at the Domino Tenth Anniversary bash in fall 2003.The group's demo and concerts began to attract attention from both the press and their peers;Bloc Party's own variation of spiky guitar rock draws on influences such as Sonic Youth, Pixies, Joy Division, Gang of Four, The Cure, and Mystery Jets. Early the following year in 2004, the band released one of the demo's tracks, "She's Hearing Voices" as a single on Trash Aesthetics. A few months later, Banquet/Staying Fat arrived on Moshi Moshi. That spring, Bloc Party signed to Wichita to release their full-length album in the U.K., and to Dim Mak for U.S. distribution. Their critically acclaimed debut album “Silent Alarm” appeared in February 2005, released by Vice Records in the States was voted by NME critics as the 2005 album of the year with the single "So Here We Are" making the top 5.
Further single "Banquet" reached #13 in NME's "Top 50 singles of 2005" while "Helicopter" and "The Pioneers" failed to repeat the grand success. They however managed to make dents in the UK top 20. "Two More Years" was released on October 3 to coincide with their October 2005 UK tour. The single ended up on a re-release of “Silent Alarm”, along with "Little Thoughts". Several other new tracks had been debuted during their non-stop touring schedule. An album of remixes of tracks from Silent Alarm was released at the end of August in the UK. Whilst retaining the album's original tracklist, it includes remixes from the likes of Ladytron, M83, Death From Above 1979, Four Tet and Mogwai.
The band is currently recording their second album which is due for release in September 2006.To coincide with their new release, a rock biography written by acclaimedTurkish/Indian/Swiss/British author Zoran Lalvani would be published in September and is already for sale on Amazon.Bloc Party became one of the most popular new bands of 2005, and the established electronic group.
Even though the band was met with good reviews from critics in America, Bloc Party failed to break through to the pop or rock charts in the US, largely remaining an underground phenomenon.