| Product Summary | | Label: Vice | | UPC: 00075679459824 | | Release Date: 2/6/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203945931 | | Item#: M3EGGS | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 34551 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Song For Clay (Disappear Here) ~ Bloc Party |  | | 2. Hunting For Witches ~ Bloc Party | | | 3. Waiting For The 7:18 ~ Bloc Party | | | 4. Prayer, The ~ Bloc Party | | | 5. Uniform ~ Bloc Party | | | 6. On ~ Bloc Party | | | 7. Where Is Home? ~ Bloc Party | | | 8. Kreuzberg ~ Bloc Party | | | 9. I Still Remember ~ Bloc Party | | | 10. Sunday ~ Bloc Party | | | 11. SRXT ~ Bloc Party | |
| 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 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 in the early hours of the morning. These are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our everyday: there are bursting with tension, paranoia, sadness, love and an intense need for reason as to how city life has become so displacing.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Bloc Party: Russell Lissack, Matt Tong, Gordon Moakes, Kele Okereke. | | With its second full-length studio album, A WEEKEND IN THE CITY, Bloc Party seems undaunted in following up its highly acclaimed debut, SILENT ALARM, assuredly presenting another shimmering set of heady, well-honed British rock. While the band's calling cards--alternately angular and chiming guitar lines, frontman Kele Okereke's plaintive vocals, and drummer Matt Tong's precise rhythms--are fully on display, WEEKEND features the London-based quartet in a more muscular mode, a point easily hit home by the fierce opener, "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)," which is marked by roaring six-string riffs and an insistent beat. | | Although WEEKEND is less dynamic than SILENT ALARM, like that earlier release, the record is generally frontloaded with more aggressive tracks (particularly the searing, dance-tinged tune "Hunting for Witches"), leaving the latter part of WEEKEND to showcase Bloc Party's shoegaze tendencies ("Kreuzberg") and pop inclinations ("I Still Remember"). Bloc Party often verges on U2/Coldplay-like grandeur here, but it defiantly retains an edge that those acts lack, making this a distinct album by a band of its time. |
Producer: Jacknife Lee |
Engineer: Tom McFall |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City - CD By: Marcelo - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 5/6/2007 8:30 AM | | Call it Bloc Party post punk if you want it. Here we have a couple of good strong guitars, powerful drum and bass, a voice that communicates the feelings of the lyrics with a big quota of drama when it is necessary (There are a lot of happy tunes with sad lyrics), and some good melodies that need to improve a little to be unforgettable.
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/06/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 94598 | | Label : Vice Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075679459824 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (p.84)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "They're one of the few acts that can write a song about a hangover that will also sound great during a hangover."Entertainment Weekly (p.74)
- "[D]rummer Matt Tong pumps out herculean disco-rock beats that'll work any nightclub into a froth." -- Grade: B- Q (p.110)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "The music is spiky but widescreen throughout, with electronic trimmings and even a hint of U2's epic soundscapes..." Uncut (p.75)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Guitarist Russell Lissack enchants on 'Kreuzberg'..." Vibe (p.122)
- "With WEEKEND, Bloc Party continue to refute genre tags, finding themselves wherever they may roam." Mojo (Publisher)
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- 3 stars out of 5 -- "A WEEKEND IN THE CITY resolves largely around a cast of twentysomething hipsters, created with obvious care and attention." |
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| | Bio | | | Bloc Party Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids reared on pop culture between the years of 1976 and the present day. Like many such kids, between them they eventually concluded that their own attempts to imitate what had informed them could be construed as a worthy variation on the many forms that preceded. They do everything that's required to conform to the currently received ideas of what a band is: ostensibly to play instruments at the same time, but also have a title for the work created. Kele picked up a guitar when his hands enabled him to do so and his brain gave him the inclination. Russell had already done as much beforehand when they met in 1998. In the fine print of music papers and in telephone conversations they enabled meetings with Gordon and Matt who also had ideas of some relevance to bring to the collective effort. In this sense a band was created. Henceforth should follow a list of auteurs and musicians that figured in the formative minds of the four as they went about their work. But to do as much seems churlish in an already self-referential world. Suffice to say there would be no band without the efforts of guitar bands formed in British and American towns in the 70s, 80s and 90s, aswell as visionary writers and artists of various kinds whose work has informed the world and culture itself as it stands. The precise names are as good as any you can come up with, in fact probably much, much better.
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