A Weekend In The City (Australian Reissue)

A Weekend In The City is the second full length album from Bloc Party. Produced by Jacknife Lee and recorded at Grouse Lodge Studios in Ireland, Bloc Party's newest collection of songs is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut 'Silent Alarm'. Inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls "the living noise of a metropolis", 'A Weekend In The City' 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.