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BLOC PARTY - Silent Alarm
| StylusMagazine |
| Forget everything you think you know and start all over again. Bloc Party’s website declares that they’re “an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids reared on pop culture between the years of 1976 and the present day.” Other commentators have called them a band. I’m sorely tempted to call them the best band in the world right now, but I won’t. (Do you see what I did there?)...full text |
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| PrefixMag |
| Even with an album as immediate and career-making as Bloc Party’s first LP, no band wants its music spread across the Internet pre-release. But it doesn’t matter; however tight security is on an album, it seems that if the public wants a record bad enough, there is always someone who is willing to give it to them (who are these people?). Sometimes, as with Eminem’s Encore last year, disappointed fans can kill the pre-release hype by revealing the album’s weaknesses. But often an album can receive the kind of glowing word of mouth that raises anticipation to a boiling point....full text |
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| RollingStone |
| One of punk rock's greatest joys is when group members interlock to the point of becoming a visceral, vibrating dance machine. London's Bloc Party achieve this manic bliss on nearly every track of their superb long-playing debut. Drummer Matt Tong provides enough speedy syncopation for several bands, guitarists Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack lend nervous string interaction, and bassist Gordon Moakes adds suspenseful, propulsive shifts....full text |
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