Track Listing 1. Song For Clay (Disappear Here) 2. Hunting For Witches 3. Waiting For The 7.18 4. Prayer 5. Uniform 6. On 7. Where Is Home 8. Kreuzberg 9. I Still Remember 10. Sunday 11. SRXT
1. Weekend In The City (making of/DVD) 2. Prayer (video/DVD) 3. I Still Remember (video/DVD)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Republic Of Music/Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes With its second full-length studio album, A WEEKEND IN THE CITY, Bloc Party seems undaunted in following up its highly acclaimed debut, SILENT ALARM, assuredly presenting another shimmering set of heady, well-honed British rock. While the band's calling cards--alternately angular and chiming guitar lines, frontman Kele Okereke's plaintive vocals, and drummer Matt Tong's precise rhythms--are fully on display, WEEKEND features the London-based quartet in a more muscular mode, a point easily hit home by the fierce opener, "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)," which is marked by roaring six-string riffs and an insistent beat.Although WEEKEND is less dynamic than SILENT ALARM, like that earlier release, the record is generally frontloaded with more aggressive tracks (particularly the searing, dance-tinged tune "Hunting for Witches"), leaving the latter part of WEEKEND to showcase Bloc Party's shoegaze tendencies ("Kreuzberg") and pop inclinations ("I Still Remember"). Bloc Party often verges on U2/Coldplay-like grandeur here, but it defiantly retains an edge that those acts lack, making this a distinct album by a band of its time.
Editorial Reviews 3 stars out of 5 -- They're one of the few acts that can write a song about a hangover that will also sound great during a hangover.Vibe (p.122) - With WEEKEND, Bloc Party continue to refute genre tags, finding themselves wherever they may roam. Spin
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