BLOC PARTY FIX,

from what's been posted so far on this blog, it'd be pretty hard to tell that bloc party are my favourite band. that's mainly because they've gone into hibernation after last year's "a weekend in the city" mammoth tour. they're writing just now, for a third album they hope hits at the end of this year or the beginning of the next (probably the latter, remember AWITC's delays). kele did his first interview in while a couple of weeks ago saying that

"We're looking at putting a record out at the end of this year, or the start of next year. Right now it feels almost like we're standing in the middle of a forest fire or an earthquake…it’s hard to know where the music is going. We aim to make something organic and inorganic, made of very real components but that sounds not real and frightening. Almost hyper real in a certain aspect. I'm really excited."

glad to see he's back to his cryptic best, the change from mysterious to straight-to-the-point lyrics between albums was welcome at the time but i always enjoyed trying to figure out some of the older material rather than it's meaning being obvious.

speaking of older material (what a segue), here's a couple of rare videos from way back in 2004, and two of the first ever bloc tracks, back when they were with dim mak. the marshalls are dead is one of my favourite b-sides.