Will I like this or complain?

 

Contemplating a wee download.

good choices damon !

wut

 

Ryan I say go for it...if you're expecting to dislike it anyway you've got nothing to lose! Haha.

 

At least it's not predictable. I cant see it getting higher than 3rd Best Bloc Party Album in my head. If I end up being wrong then I'll consider them one of the very best bands ever.

Edited August 15, 201212 yr by tonyttt31

It's definitely 3rd best for me right now. The other two are practically UNBEATABLE though. 3x3 :wub:

good choices damon !

 

What did I choose? :lol:

 

I'm waiting until Monday, dunno how i'm managing it. So excited, this and Jessie Ware both out on the same day. :w00t:

3X3 seems to be a fave. It's such a different construction for them.

'It's ultimately debatable whether or not Four is the "real" Bloc Party, but revisionist history isn't supposed to be a duller version of the real thing.' and a 4.9 from p4k. oh dear :(

Oh they can FUCK OFF.

 

p4k that is OBVIOUSLY.

I'm finding it a bit boring. I hope it grows on me. Nothing is terrible on it.

oh no 4.9 from pitchfork, it's cause it's not cool to like bloc party anymore.

 

album is at least a 7 for me. it's definitely a better album than intimacy.

Edited August 17, 201212 yr by Chris.

It's really not got a patch on Intimacy! I'm starting to think it is their worst but it's still AT LEAST a 7 definitely.

It's barely a 5 for me now.

It's a solid 9 people.

I was ready to dismiss this after one listen but after reading this review from the BBC I gave it another go. Kettling is bloody immense! Don't see what the reviewer is on about there.

 

Jaime Gill 2012-08-10

 

Bloc Party’s unpredictability has always been admirable, emerging as they did from the hopelessly conformist, misnomered world of ‘indie’. Leaping to fame with the inventive but guitar-bound Silent Alarm debut, frontman Kele Okereke soon began dragging the band ever deeper into electronica. It was a journey that most fans – and ultimately his band – decided not to accompany him on.

The band never formally split, but Okereke’s delight in his solo album and guitarist Russell Lissack’s secondment to Ash suggested otherwise. Which makes Four a reunion album, not a typically lovely or exciting creature (witness The Verve’s similarly titled Forth). It’s as true for bands as for couples: getting back together doesn’t normally work.

Yet from the moment So He Begins to Lie tears out of the speakers, it’s obvious that Bloc Party have dodged expectations again. Lissack’s fantastically crunchy riff, Okereke’s echoing vocal and Matthew Tong’s feverish drum rolls forcefully prove that Bloc Party are a real band again, and a rock band at that. Followed immediately by the Banshees-like strafing guitars and hysterically gothic vocals of 3x3, they sound so raw and energetic you’d think they formed 13 weeks ago, not 13 years.

Mostly, this works immensely to Four’s advantage. The band has always been marked out by introspection, but here the slower songs sound winningly hesitant and unpolished. Real Talk stumbles forward slowly, Okereke’s bruised vocal dragged along by Lissack’s shuffling guitar. On The Healing, the band almost becomes the Cocteau Twins, with lovely, lapping guitar lines matched by a frail, dreamy vocal.

Between the soft and hard extremes lies the python-like Octopus: its frenetic guitar line, stuttering rhythm (borrowed from Portishead’s Machine Gun) and delightfully skipping vocal looping around the listener, before the chorus brutally tightens. V.A.L.I.S. is even better, its guttural bassline, jerky guitars and elasticated melody sounding like a brilliant hybrid of The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The downside to this newborn approach is that Four doesn’t cohere particularly well, and amateurish errors like the vicious but unfinished Kettling stand uncorrected. Still – remarkably – Bloc Party sound full of potential where just four years ago they sounded depleted. Indeed, Four may be 2012’s most exciting guitar album, and who would have predicted that?

A 7/10 sounds about right, which I think is a similar score i'd give to Intimacy.

 

Bit worried about Bloctober now, loads of their O2 gigs are starting to sell out :/

Edited August 19, 201212 yr by Y!kes

I tried. I really did.

 

There is just nothing to it.

You didn't try hard enough then.

You didn't try hard enough then.

 

It's not BAD bad. It's just nothing. None of you will be commenting on what a great album it is at the end of the year.

It's not BAD bad. It's just nothing. None of you will be commenting on what a great album it is at the end of the year.

 

 

I'm not commenting on what a great album it is now. I'm not one of these die-hard fans. I call a spade, a spade. It's mildly interesting and only because I am a reasonably big fan. I dont think it would grab a non-fan.

It's not BAD bad. It's just nothing. None of you will be commenting on what a great album it is at the end of the year.

It's f***ing Bloc Party - my favourite musical artist/band EVER.

 

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