Bloc Party
Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Cure, East London art punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. Consisting of singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before settling on Bloc Party. 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 ...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, fro [ read more ]
2xLP $17.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Includes free download card! Following a long run of summer festivals and sold out tour dates, Bloc Party brings us their newest studio effort. Intimacy Is a fittingly up-close title for an album that is, immediately, in-your-face and in-your-ear. Bloc Party's third album is a thrillingly radical record, bristling with percussive innovation, scorching riffs, orchestral sampledelia and biting emotional candor.
LP $19.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Import triple vinyl! Bloc Party's album, Intimacy, remixed by Herve, Mogwai, John B, Armand Van Helden, Filthy Dukes, No Age, and more.
3xLP $43.99
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