Music Soup

Released only for download (the CD comes out Oct. 27) and past quite unnoticed, “Intimacy” by Bloc Party is one of those discs that leaves perplexed. Not because it is ugly, indeed, is a great disc. But the sudden turn dance leaves at least bewildered. The comparison with the two previous work then it is difficult, as wanting to compare the blue period Picasso with the pink. Which was better? Unable to respond. Yet they are always, the Bloc Party, and feel no betrayal.

There is only the desire to experiment, not to be locked in a genre that after only 6 years is likely to be finished. Purists of the rock maybe storch the nose, but we must pay tribute to a group that still young, challenge any logic market is reinvented and forces us to come to terms with their entire discography.

In London, the nu-rave goes to great and feels because the band Kele Okereke wrapped an album that dancefloor perhaps spaccherà the middle Europe. It is understood from the first notes of “Ares” with the battery stolen devastating to the brothers and chemicals that might help the rebirth of big beat. “Mercury” we know well by now, while in “Halo” find the most Bloc Party rock with a punk sfuriata which, for the sake of oxymoron, Okereke sings delicate words of love.

via

Summer is time for all gossip, even in the musical world. Voices of the corridor, reported by ‘NME, said that in the backstage of Summercase Festival in Madrid has unleashed a kind of brawl between the singer of Bloc Party Kele Okereke has been attacked by John Lydon and his entourage. Reason triggering the brawl a racist response that Lydon and his entourage have made the question about a possible meeting of the Public Image Ltd., the other group Lydon’s historic post-Sex Pistol.

In the brawl that seems to have entered into defending the singer of Bloc Party also Yannis Philippakis of Foals and some components of Kaiser Chiefs. The singer of Foals, according to the Guardian, had the worst ending to be arrested by Spanish police.

Lydon has denied all accusing Okereke of envy for his career and his musical history, smentendo racism as a reason for the brawl. A good think about it, envious of a man so I could not be sure…