Bloc Party - Four (Album Trailer)

drunkmonkey

It's been a long time coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4M5EqOGsMA

flyswatter

First single from Four, Octopus.

I think this song is hard to put into a box, well done guys!

Stompbox

Poor methinks; the chorus is pretty much non-existent and don't get me started on Kele's newfound frontman moves. The second top-rated comment nails it for me.

flyswatter

Loving this, so interesting. It clicked after the second listen.

flyswatter

Stompbox wrote: »

Poor methinks; the chorus is pretty much non-existent and don't get me started on Kele's newfound frontman moves. The second top-rated comment nails it for me.

Second top rated comment is a comment about the albums released today?

Stompbox

It must have changed in the last few hours. The comment I was referring to read: 'Nice song. They've lost it though.'

Thundercats Ho

flyswatter wrote: »

[First single from Four, Octopus.

I think this song is hard to put into a box, well done guys!

Sounds great after the 1st listen. Looking forward to the album release.
Man i fvcking love Bloc Party...

Denalihighway

I like this. Yes I do.

Mogwaiii

Definitely looking forward to this!

seachto7

trop trendy pour moi

Stompbox

How can music be 'too trendy' for you? You either like it or you don't, trendiness shouldn't be a factor.

Corholio

Octopus is ok, nothing more I don't think. Don't really like Kele's singing for the first half of it. Hopefully the album bodes a bit better.

flyswatter

The album definitely needs a few more listens, currently totally unsure about it.

Possibly a few songs I'm really not too fond of. I've taken a bit of a dislike to We Are Not Good People.

There's a serious dose of Stoner Rock/Metal influence on parts of the record (think QOTSA) which I didn't expect.

Songs I like from it are V.A.L.I.S, Day Four and Octopus.

Mountainlad

It's a pretty poor effort unfortunately.

About 4/5 songs out of 12 that are decent or good does not make for a proper album.

V.A.L.I.S. is very good. Truth and Day Four are good, Real Talk is decent.

The rest ranges from filler to aboslute rubbish.

Disappointed because I was really excited when I heard they were back.

Xavi6

What a dull and boring album, nearly dozed off halfway through.

donfers

surprised by the reaction here, it received good reviews

personally i think there are lot less great albums being made these days, just a lot of albums with some great songs on them - maybe it's the age we live in where most listeners just cherrypick a few songs and stick them on their ipod, are bands getting lazy?

it's been a while since i've listened to and enjoyed a new album the whole way through - i had placed my hopes in this one but you guys have burst that balloon - thanks a lot

Mountainlad

donfers wrote: »

surprised by the reaction here, it received good reviews

personally i think there are lot less great albums being made these days, just a lot of albums with some great songs on them - maybe it's the age we live in where most listeners just cherrypick a few songs and stick them on their ipod, are bands getting lazy?

it's been a while since i've listened to and enjoyed a new album the whole way through - i had placed my hopes in this one but you guys have burst that balloon - thanks a lot

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16944-four/

Not such a good review

flyswatter

Mountainlad wrote: »

donfers wrote: »

surprised by the reaction here, it received good reviews

personally i think there are lot less great albums being made these days, just a lot of albums with some great songs on them - maybe it's the age we live in where most listeners just cherrypick a few songs and stick them on their ipod, are bands getting lazy?

it's been a while since i've listened to and enjoyed a new album the whole way through - i had placed my hopes in this one but you guys have burst that balloon - thanks a lot

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16944-four/

Not such a good review

Pitchforks review is the exception rather than the rule, it has been getting predominantly positive reviews. Bear in mind, Pitchfork gave Beach Houses latest a 9.1 review. That's a dull album where a lot of the songs just blend into one another. I'll say no more.

Mountainlad

flyswatter wrote: »

Pitchforks review is the exception rather than the rule, it has been getting predominantly positive reviews. Bear in mind, Pitchfork gave Beach Houses latest a 9.1 review. That's a dull album where a lot of the songs just blend into one another. I'll say no more.

Thought it was a great album. Think that description might suit this album. There is a lot of grunge type sounds on this album, heavy on guitar, but with little in terms of varied Melody. A lot of the verses seem drawn out and forced, and then you have that part of Kettling (think it was Kettling) where he does that bit singing 'Pain is etc' which sounds like the product of a few guys messing around and wouldn't feature in a song that I'd take anywhere seriously.

There was 3 songs that could have closed out the album, and while they wouldn't have been as good as the transition from Compliments to Every Time is The Last Time or SRXT and Ion Square, they would have been fitting and worked well. Instead they chose a really average song that is the anti-climax that sums up the album perfectly.

In my opinion, the positive reception is on account of good P.R. in that they've come back against expectation and they did it piece by piece with initial hints before they announced their return and started to build a campaign around the album.

I'm a massive Bloc Party fan, and I was really looking forward to it. Just felt it offered little, unfortunately.

flyswatter

Mountainlad wrote: »

Thought it was a great album. Think that description might suit this album. There is a lot of grunge type sounds on this album, heavy on guitar, but with little in terms of varied Melody. A lot of the verses seem drawn out and forced, and then you have that part of Kettling (think it was Kettling) where he does that bit singing 'Pain is etc' which sounds like the product of a few guys messing around and wouldn't feature in a song that I'd take anywhere seriously.

There was 3 songs that could have closed out the album, and while they wouldn't have been as good as the transition from Compliments to Every Time is The Last Time or SRXT and Ion Square, they would have been fitting and worked well. Instead they chose a really average song that is the anti-climax that sums up the album perfectly.

In my opinion, the positive reception is on account of good P.R. in that they've come back against expectation and they did it piece by piece with initial hints before they announced their return and started to build a campaign around the album.

I'm a massive Bloc Party fan, and I was really looking forward to it. Just felt it offered little, unfortunately.

Thing about the Bloc Party album in comparison to Beach House is at least they vary things and it ain't completely samey, anyway don't know why I'm comparing those bands, it's a bit off topic.

Don't agree with the PR thing, good PR isn't going to convince critics to write you a good review if the music is poor.

For me, the album has one too many average tracks for it to really satisfy me and it's the first time I've really been disappointed by the band but clearly a lot of people are digging it.

It's a step down from Intimacy which is almost their best work (Still bemused why a lot aren't taken with it to this day)

Spazdarn

It's taken me a long time to warm to this album, first listen thought it was brutal but V.A.L.I.S, Day Four, Octopus, Coliseum and Team A, I all like if not for completely different reasons.

I think the album is very varied, and the tracks don't seem to flow well into each other but it's still a decent album...

flyswatter

They're playing the Olympia 12 February next year.

Just Like Heaven

It's my least favourite of the albums. I wouldn't call it 'varied' so much as inconsistent and kinda confused. I've been a huge fan for ages now, it's upsetting cause there's some great songs, but there's definitely filler on this album that offers nothing at all and it drags the whole album down.