A Weekend in the City

&quoLondon four piece Bloc Party return with their highly anticipated second album - an intense, brilliant follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut 'Silent Alarm'.

Band members Kele Okereke (vocals / guitar) and Russell Lissack (guitar) formed the band in 2002 and were subsequently joined by bassist Gordon Moakes who answered an advert in the NME, and most recently recruited drummer Matt Tong.

Upon the release of 'Silent Alarm' in February 2005, Bloc Party were catapulted into the global spotlight, gathering worldwide fans and critical acclaim, with NME voting 'Silent Alarm' "Album of the Year”. They raced up the chart in 17 countries and went on to sell over a million copies of the album worldwide.

'A Weekend in the City' was produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, Snow Patrol) and recorded at Grouse Lodge Studios in Ireland. Lee helped the band rethink what guitars and rock could do, conjuring up sonic wizardry at the flick of a Pro-Tools switch.

'A Weekend in the City' is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls "the living noise of a metropolis.” The band capture 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. The songs are bursting with tension, paranoia, sadness, love and an intense need for reason as to how city life has become so displacing.

"Moving on from the angular post-punk of their debut, the sequel ('A Weekend in the City') is a warmer, more confident affair, which finds singer Kele Okereke providing an insightful and often personal view of 21st century British life.;
- NME