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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]
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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.
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.
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.
Tong said in 2009, "I wouldn't mind trying something else for a while" regarding the uncertainty of Bloc Party's future. [6] Tong left Bloc Party during the band's summer 2013 tour, after recording four albums with the band. Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke alluded to simmering tensions that had been boiling up behind the scenes that were never ...