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Bloc Party's Lissack and Okereke on stage in Cardiff in October 2005. Bloc Party's debut album, Silent Alarm, was released in February 2005 and was met with universal critical acclaim. [12] It was voted 'Album of the Year' for 2005 by NME, [13] and reached number 3 on the UK Albums Chart before being certified platinum.
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Rowland Kelechukwu "Kele" Okereke // ⓘ (born 13 October 1981), also known mononymously as Kele, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician.He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party. [1]
In 2022, Okereke said "I don’t really want either of them in my life right now" of Tong and bassist Gordon Moakes, who also left Bloc Party in 2015 after 13 years. [8] In a 2024 interview, Tong called Okereke "an insurmountable obstacle", said the two have not spoken since his departure, and confirmed that he left Bloc Party via an email ...
Moakes shared co-writing credits with Okereke on some of the band's earlier lyrics. In the early days of the band, he contributed lyrics mostly to the band's more political songs, and he composed the song "Diet". Moakes added new instruments to his repertoire on Bloc Party's second and third albums, A Weekend in the City and Intimacy respectively.
The quartet's first release was the Bloc Party EP in 2004; the first single, "She's Hearing Voices", was released and it failed to chart in the United Kingdom. The next EP, Little Thoughts was released the same year only in Japan; it included Bloc Party's first UK Top 40 entry, the double A-side "Little Thoughts/Tulips", which peaked at number 38.
In June 2004, Bloc Party convened at Deltalab Studios in Copenhagen to make Silent Alarm with Paul Epworth. [10] The band had already written demo songs to record, but Okereke has noted that "it is a creative process and you have to let yourself be inspired while you're in the studio as well". [4]