bloc party • 2 part prayer

"The Prayer" / "England" (Exclusive Recording)

"The Prayer" / 2. "Version 2" (Exclusive Recording)

This is not the free 7 inch that comes with the album...I'm torn about that...on one hand I like that the labels are doing that... of course I selfishly love 7"'s and just want more of them of any kind. But is this really supposed to increase sales? What is their motivation? To get someone like me to buy the full album? That's fine I guess. I just think there is a fine line to overusing this as such an obvious marketing tool.
Take the cat power 7 inch that came out for 'the greatest' they didn't give it away free, but sold it for .99. It was in a plain white sleeve, with minimal art on the 7" itself. I think I like this even less then getting it free with the album, it's like they don't care. It's like just some throwaway thing, I'm not really upset, it just seemed like a waste. It's worth doing, make it good.
I don't know, give me more seven inches.

Bloc party-The prayer part one-Features the prayer and also england on the flip side, the single comes housed in a gatefold sleeve with room to hold the second part of the series which is sold separately, the prayer is a real pulsating bass driven piece of eighties influenced indie rock complete with lush synth sounds.

Bloc party-The prayer part two-Features the prayer along with version 2 on the flip side, limited edition yellow vinyl pressing, the prayer is a real pulsating bass driven piece of eighties influenced indie rock complete with lush synth sounds.

Here's my other problem, why are these sold separately? Are you just trying to drive me insane? Could you imagine just getting one of these and not being able to find the other one anywhere?
I'll never see it anyway.
Import only, god dammit.

I do like this song it's perfectly bloc party, that driving dance party rock, it's kind of in it's own world. I really can't compare this to anything. I don't like the verse but the chorus makes me want to throw myself off a cliff. Where's the next girl who will be singing this into her webcam.

Bloc Party new album and seven inch

Bloc Party....where are we now. They put on a decent show at McCarren Park pool. It's hard to rock a huge venue like that. It must have been a couple thousand people, it was good, they played some new things from I'm guessing this album. They said had just finished recording it. I don't remember specifically it blowing me away or anything.
The songwriting on the first release was just great, amazing and I think that theory of blowing your whole life of songwriting on the first album won't really apply here, at least I hope not. That's it, I want to like them, I just don't know if I'll be over it in a month.
Now ....do you preorder this? I am hesitating, it's still sitting in my cart. It's so super limited that I almost keep clicking on checkout. I know this will be gone quick, my loss.
Here's a streaming sample from vice.
This single "The Prayer" has all kinds of sounds, maybe they went a little crazy, it's very stereoed out, there's so much going on it sounds a little like a chaotic mess. I can hear the money spent at expensive studios, it's pouring out of my tiny speakers. The sounds are great and I love messing with the usual rock drum beats and really pushing the limits on a typical rock out.
I can see teenage girls singing this into their webcams everywhere.
Good weather for airstrikes loves them, and I can see why. I'm just confused.

Be one of the first 1000 people to pre-order the new Bloc Party album, A Weekend In The City, and receive a FREE LIMITED EDITION 7". This INSOUND EXCLUSIVE vinyl features two tracks, 'I Still Remember' and an unreleased B-side, 'We Were Lovers'! Quantities are limited so order now. This won’t be repressed!

THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL SHIP ON OR NEAR THE FEBRUARY 6TH RELEASE DATE.

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, from going out on a Friday night to the long ride home near the early hours of the morning. These are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our every day; they're bursting with tension, paranoia, sadness, love, and an intense need for reasons as to how city life has become so displacing. Not since Radiohead's OK Computer has a British band explored the diseased state of modernity so completely..

Gringo records - singles club

What!! How do these keep springing up? Seriously, I was a little worried in the beginning I might be reaching with some posts for a good seven inch to talk about, maybe I'd have to really scour the internet for some not so interesting things until the new releases were announced. But honestly, they just keep coming, and that backlog stuff I (thankfully) will never to get to.

This single club in unavailable to purchase in it's entirety, but almost all the releases are available just scroll down to the bottom, all that is except the erase errata single, thats sold out....the rest are about £4.75/each.

GRINGO RECORDS SINGLES CLUB
featuring Erase Errata, Red Monkey, Electro Group, Hirameka Hi-Fi, Eska, New Radiant Storm King, Soeza, The Intima, El Hombre Trajeado, Hella, Empire-Builder and Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!
6 x 7" and suprises

Bloc Party played down the street at McCareen Park this weekend, great show, that pool is amazing, really great summer venue, they should be filling it with just a little bit of water. We were talking about how central park is always impossible to really see anything, and that space just isn't big enough even. The pool is a nice medium of out there just enough, and giant.
There must be millions of lead paint chips on the bottom of that pool. I'm a little suprised in some ways, this isn't a lawsuit waiting to happen as soon as someone stuffs a handfull of paintchips into their mouth?

There are some great pics here.