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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. Bloc Party's first studio album, Silent Alarm was released in 2005 and was the band's UK breakthrough by reaching number three on the UK Albums Chart.
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.
Silent Alarm is the debut studio album by English rock band Bloc Party.Recorded in Copenhagen and London in mid-2004 with Paul Epworth as producer, it was released on 2 February 2005, by Wichita Recordings.
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]
Alpha Games is the sixth studio album by English indie rock band Bloc Party, released on 29 April 2022.It is the first studio album by the band since 2016's Hymns.It is notably the first album with drummer Louise Bartle, who joined the band after drum sessions for Hymns had been completed, [3] and the first to feature significant songwriting input from Bartle and bassist Justin Harris with ...
Silent Alarm Remixed is the remix album to Silent Alarm, the debut album by British indie rock band Bloc Party.It was released on 29 August 2005 in the British Isles on Wichita Recordings, the band's primary label, and on 13 September 2005 in the United States through Vice Records to coincide with Bloc Party's worldwide touring schedule.
All band members of Bloc Party conceived A Weekend in the City during 2005 while on tour in support of their critically acclaimed debut album Silent Alarm.Despite missing their home city of London, the quartet became increasingly disillusioned with the culture in the area each time they sporadically returned.
A bewitching new Bloc Party has risen from the grave. Praise be." [23] Giving the album a 4/5 score, The Guardian stated that "There’s a clue to Bloc Party’s radical new direction in the album title: lyrically, Hymns is a turn for the more spiritual. Out goes the angst; in come song titles such as 'Only He Can Heal Me' and an evangelical ...