They’ve just released a new single, “The Love Within“, which is the first song off their upcoming, as-yet untitled fifth album.
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With new members Justin Harris and Louis Bartle, respectively, rounding out the band, Bloc Party performed two new tracks, “Exes” and “The Good News”; watch their seven-song set, which also included familiar hits “Banquet” and “This Modern Love”, below.
Bloc Party are returning after a three-year break with only Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack still on board from 2012’s ‘Four’.
Hymns is due early next year following the band’s Australian visit for Falls Festival, Southbound in WA, and sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne. In March 2015, after the band’s hiatus came to an end, longtime bassist Gordon Moakes announced he wasn’t involved in Bloc Party’s new music and was instead focusing on his own Young Legionnaire project.
Speaking to triple j’s earlier this year, Okereke discussed the sonic direction of the new album, which will feature about 15 tracks, Afro-Cuban percussion, and a full-blown choir.
“It’s sounding like nothing that we’ve done before but that’s what everyone always says”. “We’ve always had very disparate elements to our music”.
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Dates are below for Bloc Party’s European tour.
