Source: NME.com

 

Bloc Party reveal new songs

 

First details of the band's second album leak

 

Bloc Party have completed 13 songs for their forthcoming second album.

 

The follow up to 2005's NME album of the year 'Silent Alarm' is due out early next year and the four-piece have revealed a premliminary track listing on the fansite blocparty.net.

 

The songs are:

 

'A Prayer To The Lord'

'England' (formerly 'Blue Moon')

'Hunting For Witches'

'It Started In An Afternoon'

'Kreuzberg'

'On' (formerly 'Wet')

'Seroxat'

'Song For Clay (Disappear Here)'

'Sunday'

'Uniform'

'Waiting For The 7:18'

'We Were Lovers' (formerly 'Cells Shaped Like Stars')

'Where Is Home?' (formerly 'Perfect Teens')

 

According to the site, some of the tracks may not appear on the album, which is being produced by Jacknife Lee.

 

The band will decide which tracks to omit after their mixing sessions have been completed.

 

A UK spokesperson confirmed the track details to be correct.

 

That reminds me, I need to copy Silent Alarm onto my iPod after Big Brother. :lol:

 

EDIT: Here's some more about theie new album from the same source:

 

Bloc Party: 'Ultra-violence and hedonism have fuelled this album'

 

Kele Okereke promises a vastly different second LP

 

Bloc Party are putting the finishing touches to an album which they promise will be a complete change both musically and lyrically.

 

Recorded with U2 and Snow Patrol producer Jacknife Lee between February and July of this year, it marks a concerted attempt by the band to move on from their previous post-punk sound into something singer Kele Okereke called"dark, bigger and quite abrasive".

 

NME.COM joined the band at a studio in Shoreditch, east London to listen to four tracks. They point to an album, to be released early next year, which is more ambitious than their 2005 debut 'Silent Alarm'.

 

"It's not noisy, but it's quite dense," said Okereke, whose band play the V Festival this weekend (August 19/20). "I think it's going to require people to make an effort with it. There's a lot of interplay and a lot of detail. There are some slower moments too. I was aware that we didn't have very many songs that were laid back. Everything was frenetic and that's fine, but we wouldn't be doing ourselves any justice as musicians if we just ploughed the same furrow."

 

The lyrics are also a departure from 'Silent Alarm'. Three terrible events spurred Okereke to write words which were no longer vague but openly personal and political. "Last year there were a lot of ultra-violent incidents last year perpetrated by young people," he remembered. "A cousin of mine, Christopher Aleneme, was killed in a racist attack." The 18-year-old was stabbed to death on a night out.

 

"Then there was the gay bartender [David Morley] who was beaten to death on the South Bank (of London) by a bunch of kids. I remember feeling so repulsed when I read that story and that galvanised my mindset."

 

The third event was the 2005 London bombings. "Post July 7 I started to look at things in the press in a different way," said Okereke. "You realise that stuff you read in the Daily Mail every day seems to purport an idea of otherness, whether it's immigrants 'flooding' the country or young black teens."

 

For more on this story, plus a full V Festival preview, get this week's issue of NME, dated August 19, onsale now in all good newsagents.

I bought Silent Alarm and liked it a lot, so I may well pick this up too!

I bought Silent Alarm and liked it a lot, so I may well pick this up too!

 

yeah got that on the SE DVD edition. cool B)

Abou time, they release some new material, Two Years Gone was an excellent single from them

Abou time, they release some new material, Two Years Gone was an excellent single from them

 

did you get the mixes alb?

Here's more on their new material from NME.com: (also added to first post)

 

Bloc Party: 'Ultra-violence and hedonism have fuelled this album'

 

Kele Okereke promises a vastly different second LP

 

Bloc Party are putting the finishing touches to an album which they promise will be a complete change both musically and lyrically.

 

Recorded with U2 and Snow Patrol producer Jacknife Lee between February and July of this year, it marks a concerted attempt by the band to move on from their previous post-punk sound into something singer Kele Okereke called"dark, bigger and quite abrasive".

 

NME.COM joined the band at a studio in Shoreditch, east London to listen to four tracks. They point to an album, to be released early next year, which is more ambitious than their 2005 debut 'Silent Alarm'.

 

"It's not noisy, but it's quite dense," said Okereke, whose band play the V Festival this weekend (August 19/20). "I think it's going to require people to make an effort with it. There's a lot of interplay and a lot of detail. There are some slower moments too. I was aware that we didn't have very many songs that were laid back. Everything was frenetic and that's fine, but we wouldn't be doing ourselves any justice as musicians if we just ploughed the same furrow."

 

The lyrics are also a departure from 'Silent Alarm'. Three terrible events spurred Okereke to write words which were no longer vague but openly personal and political. "Last year there were a lot of ultra-violent incidents last year perpetrated by young people," he remembered. "A cousin of mine, Christopher Aleneme, was killed in a racist attack." The 18-year-old was stabbed to death on a night out.

 

"Then there was the gay bartender [David Morley] who was beaten to death on the South Bank (of London) by a bunch of kids. I remember feeling so repulsed when I read that story and that galvanised my mindset."

 

The third event was the 2005 London bombings. "Post July 7 I started to look at things in the press in a different way," said Okereke. "You realise that stuff you read in the Daily Mail every day seems to purport an idea of otherness, whether it's immigrants 'flooding' the country or young black teens."

 

For more on this story, plus a full V Festival preview, get this week's issue of NME, dated August 19, onsale now in all good newsagents.